Shadi
Shadi was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,571 among boys’ names; 966 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shadi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shadi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shadi is “a unisex given name from Arabic or Persian.”
Borrowed from Arabic شَادِي (šādī), Iranian Persian شَادی (šâdi).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shadi?
#9,571 among boys’ names, 2025
Shadi entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,571 in 2025.
43 babies in 1995, the peak
Shadi peaked in 1995, when 43 babies were given it (24 boys, #3,001 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 8 | #9,571 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 8 | #9,722 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 7 | #10,630 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #13,768 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 10 | #7,951 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,601 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 13 | #6,606 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #13,867 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,696 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #10,539 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 10 | #7,999 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #12,034 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 13 | #6,519 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 10 | #8,033 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 18 | #5,274 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,983 | 11 | #7,612 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,049 | 11 | #7,495 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,404 | 17 | #5,263 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,686 | 13 | #6,155 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,743 | 17 | #4,961 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 16 | #4,999 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,366 | 12 | #6,007 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,002 | 16 | #4,849 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,595 | 22 | #3,730 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,439 | 19 | #3,955 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,030 | 17 | #4,165 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,899 | 25 | #3,047 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,323 | 20 | #3,526 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,177 | 24 | #3,001 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,002 | 27 | #2,742 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,372 | 20 | #3,343 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,282 | 17 | #3,718 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,254 | 20 | #3,200 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,791 | 25 | #2,679 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,444 | 24 | #2,673 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,454 | 22 | #2,666 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,688 | 21 | #2,624 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,341 | 18 | #2,868 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,155 | 20 | #2,582 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 16 | #2,933 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 27 | #2,007 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,006 | 19 | #2,581 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 12 | #3,576 | |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,275 | 13 | #3,400 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,795 | 14 | #3,140 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,351 | 16 | #2,775 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,241 | 7 | #5,029 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,487 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,267 | 7 | #4,707 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shadi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 966 Americans recorded as Shadi, 26% are girls and 74% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shadi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shadi, and how old are they?
An estimated 934 Americans named Shadi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 23 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,141 people named Shadi (871 women and girls, 1,270 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 908 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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.
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 Shadi born?
The states with the most babies named Shadi are California, New York and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 108 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Shadi 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,919 babies since 1880, Shadi is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 25 babies (32%), 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 Shadi
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 Shadi and names like it
- Compare Shadi and ShadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShadi peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shadi since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Shadi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Shadi.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shadi alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.