Sade

Where Sade comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Sade.

  • Vowel-ended
Sade through the years
  1. 1960
    Sade Adeniran born
    Nigerian novelist
  2. 1969
    Sade Baderinwa born
    American journalist
  3. 1985
    Around this time: Promise by Sade
    Album, 1985 · Source
  4. 1985
    First appearance
    #513 among girls with 393 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  5. 1986
    Peak, #213
    1,245 babies named Sade, the most in any year.
  6. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #390.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Sade Adeniran · Nigerian novelist, born 1960
  • Sade Baderinwa · American journalist, born 1969
  • Sade Kahra · Artist, political scientist, born 1974
  • Sade Elhawary · American politician and community organizer, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.