Zadie
Zadie was given to 85 girls in 2025, #2,193 among girls’ names; 3,615 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,560 Americans named Zadie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zadie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zadie?
#2,193 among girls’ names, 2025
Zadie fell from #1,635 in 2015 to #2,193 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 73.9 to 52.9 per million.
174 babies in 2016, the peak
Zadie peaked in 2016, when 174 girls were given it, #1,364 among girls’ names. The 85 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,193 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,770 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 139 | #1,542 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 156 | #1,441 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,610 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 152 | #1,441 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,832 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 160 | #1,405 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 155 | #1,459 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 174 | #1,364 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 132 | #1,635 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 94 | #2,080 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,151 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,448 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,215 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,385 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,243 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,801 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,374 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,262 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,480 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,700 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,528 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,760 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,738 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,562 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,325 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,103 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,821 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,566 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,540 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,413 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,302 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,531 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,656 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,522 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,203 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,619 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,667 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,550 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,420 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,587 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #4,004 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,737 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,569 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,149 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,413 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #3,024 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,446 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,734 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,605 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,738 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,538 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,955 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,202 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,303 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,820 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,678 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,539 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,943 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,231 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,549 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,603 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,644 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,532 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,170 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 26 | #858 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 26 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 18 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,636 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 21 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 14 | #1,056 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 19 | #852 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 13 | #1,023 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 16 | #856 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 20 | #858 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,096 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,170 | 0.04 |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,045 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,119 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 11 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 14 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,445 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,209 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 12 | #824 | 0.06 |
| 1889 | 13 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,034 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1885 | 7 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 9 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 7 | #816 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 7 | #810 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 11 | #538 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zadie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zadie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zadie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zadie, and how old are they?
2,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 3,615 Americans ever recorded as Zadie. The median Zadie alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,755 people named Zadie (1,749 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,901 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 79 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 94 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 657 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,680 |
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 Zadie born?
The states with the most babies named Zadie are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,357 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,276 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,474 | 0.3× |
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 Zadie 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,615 babies since 1880, Zadie is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 128 babies (66%), again the 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 Zadie
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 Zadie and names like it
- Compare Zadie and ZadaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZadie peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zadie since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Zadie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zadie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.