Sadye — girls' name
1,526 babies named Sadye in U.S. Social Security records since 1882, with the highest year being 1898. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Sadye was born in this single decade.
41 babies were named Sadye in 1898 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sadye
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,526 babies named Sadye between 1882 and 2019, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sadye currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1898, when 41 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sadye performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 315 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Sadye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 99 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Sadye in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sadye in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,526 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sadye at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sadye popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1882
- Peak year (1898)
- 41
- Annual births at peak — across 138 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
1,526 total births across 138 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1898 with 41 births in a single year.
Sadye by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 315 births that decade — 21% of Sadye's all-time total
Sadye decade highlights
- Peak decade 315 births
- Runner-up 304 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Sadye's strongest decade
315 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Sadye by state
Where Sadye concentrates geographically — total births since 1882
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 99 | 6.5% |
| #2 | Texas | | 10 | 0.7% |
| #3 | Pennsylvania | | 6 | 0.4% |
| #4 | California | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #5 | Massachusetts | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #6 | Mississippi | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #7 | New Jersey | | 5 | 0.3% |
99 of 1,526 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 6.5% of nationwide
- Texas 0.7% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.4% of nationwide
- California 0.3% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 0.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 6.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1882–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.