Sade
Sade was given to 92 girls in 2025, #2,058 among girls’ names; 10,102 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,900 Americans named Sade and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sade by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sade mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Sade is “a female given name”
< sade. Mostly fairly recent (from the late 20th century onwards), and has remained rare until the 21st century.
/ˈsɑde(ˣ)/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sade?
#2,058 among girls’ names, 2025
Sade rose from #2,616 in 2015 to #2,058 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 38.7 to 57.2 per million.
1,259 babies in 1986, the peak
Sade peaked in 1986, when 1,259 babies were given it (1,245 girls, #213 among girls’ names). The 100 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,058 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,170 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,224 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,188 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,100 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,414 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,627 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,401 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,540 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,270 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,616 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,642 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,362 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,203 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,895 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 113 | #1,815 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 128 | #1,724 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,700 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 146 | #1,558 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 158 | #1,435 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 185 | #1,235 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 213 | #1,081 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 206 | #1,076 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 245 | #914 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 300 | #788 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 201 | #1,043 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,080 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 233 | #906 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 239 | #856 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 283 | #748 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 374 | #601 | 0.21 |
| 1994 | 374 | #601 | 0.21 |
| 1993 | 536 | #475 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 342 | #654 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 321 | #674 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 407 | #570 | 0.21 |
| 1989 | 593 | #417 | 0.32 |
| 1988 | 616 | #390 | 0.35 |
| 1987 | 627 | #372 | 0.36 |
| 1986 | 1,245 | #213 | 0.73 |
| 1985 | 393 | #513 | 0.23 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sade a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,102 Americans recorded as Sade, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 92 girls and 8 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sade: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sade, and how old are they?
9,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 10,102 Americans ever recorded as Sade. The median Sade alive today is 33 years old; half are between 23 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 8,033 people named Sade (7,887 women and girls, 146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,426 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sade born?
The states with the most babies named Sade are California, Texas and New York, with 75% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,924 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 11 | #2,017 | 0.6× |
| New York | 8 | #1,631 | 2.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,381 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,738 | 1.2× |
Where Sade is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sade is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1985 it was given 4.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sade with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 167,976 babies since 1880, Sade is the second most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 100 of their 4,383 babies (2.3%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sade
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sade and names like it
- Compare Sade and SadieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSade peaked in 1986.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sade since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Sade: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Sade.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sade alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.