Sadia
Sadia was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,338 among girls’ names; 1,366 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Sadia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 14 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sadia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sadia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sadia is “a female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Sadi.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sadia?
#4,338 among girls’ names, 2025
Sadia rose from #5,630 in 2015 to #4,338 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 13.4 to 20.5 per million.
55 babies in 2001, the peak
Sadia peaked in 2001, when 55 girls were given it, #2,728 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,338 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,580 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,702 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,143 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,585 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,460 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,880 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,119 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,634 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,576 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,630 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,750 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,972 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,533 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,451 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,343 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,198 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,339 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,549 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,910 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,789 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,427 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,335 | 24.1 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,272 | 23.9 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,728 | 30.5 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,643 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,362 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,719 | 28.3 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,688 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,286 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,856 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,872 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,656 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,343 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,765 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,337 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,222 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,281 | 16.8 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,431 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,858 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,246 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,153 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,427 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,136 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,687 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,175 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,867 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,475 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,870 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,118 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,989 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,862 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,458 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sadia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sadia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sadia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sadia, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,366 Americans ever recorded as Sadia. The median Sadia alive today is 24 years old; half are between 14 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 4,679 people named Sadia (4,644 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,199 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 70 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 358 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 583 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 332 |
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 Sadia born?
The states with the most babies named Sadia are New York, California and Michigan, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 324 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| California | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Sadia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sadia is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 3.6 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 Sadia 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 167,214 babies since 1880, Sadia is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 4,348 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Sadia
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 Sadia and names like it
- Compare Sadia and SadieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSadia peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sadia since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Sadia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Sadia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sadia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.