Sade
#2,051 for girls in 2025, 92 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 98.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 1,245 births
- Debut · girls
- 393 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,981since 1985
Sade over time
Rank among girls' names. Sade has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,051 | 92 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #2,150 | 88 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #2,210 | 85 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #2,174 | 87 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,085 | 91 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #2,394 | 73 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #2,387 | 76 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,530 | 70 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,229 | 50 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,590 | 69 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #2,344 | 78 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,189 | 86 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,886 | 106 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,809 | 113 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,719 | 128 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #1,685 | 132 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,556 | 146 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,428 | 158 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,227 | 185 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,078 | 213 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #1,075 | 206 | — | |
| 2002 | #909 | 245 | — | |
| 2001 | #788 | 300 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,042 | 201 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,077 | 186 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #905 | 233 | — | |
| 1997 | #855 | 239 | — | |
| 1996 | #745 | 283 | — | |
| 1995 | #601 | 374 | — | |
| 1994 | #601 | 374 | — | |
| 1993 | #474 | 536 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #652 | 342 | — | |
| 1991 | #671 | 321 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #570 | 407 | — | |
| 1989 | #417 | 593 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #390 | 616 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #372 | 627 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #213 | 1,245 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #513 | 393 | #4,698 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sade! It came in at #513, and was given to 393 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2014–2017, when fewer than 71 girls a year got the name.
Where Sade is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#105 · 1 in 438
- Maryland#171 · 1 in 981
- New York#204 · 1 in 1,203
- North Carolina#217 · 1 in 1,331
- South Carolina#221 · 1 in 1,211
Best ever in a state: #45 in District of Columbia, 1986.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #105 | 13 | 1 in 438 |
| Maryland | #171 | 26 | 1 in 981 |
| New York | #204 | 93 | 1 in 1,203 |
| North Carolina | #217 | 28 | 1 in 1,331 |
| South Carolina | #221 | 15 | 1 in 1,211 |
| Virginia | #221 | 25 | 1 in 1,390 |
| Florida | #225 | 51 | 1 in 1,361 |
| Pennsylvania | #225 | 49 | 1 in 1,413 |
| New Jersey | #234 | 29 | 1 in 1,502 |
| Louisiana | #242 | 20 | 1 in 1,316 |
| Connecticut | #269 | 10 | 1 in 1,824 |
| Georgia | #280 | 22 | 1 in 1,782 |
| Illinois | #294 | 39 | 1 in 1,861 |
| Mississippi | #346 | 7 | 1 in 1,900 |
| Michigan | #350 | 22 | 1 in 2,635 |
| Tennessee | #382 | 10 | 1 in 2,822 |
| Ohio | #415 | 19 | 1 in 3,563 |
| Wisconsin | #415 | 8 | 1 in 3,619 |
| Alabama | #471 | 6 | 1 in 3,589 |
| Missouri | #471 | 8 | 1 in 3,905 |
| Texas | #478 | 40 | 1 in 3,222 |
| Oklahoma | #496 | 5 | 1 in 3,584 |
| Massachusetts | #608 | 6 | 1 in 5,981 |
| California | #679 | 41 | 1 in 5,247 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sade
- 99 spots since 2024 (#2,150 → #2,051)
- 343 spots since 2020 (#2,394 → #2,051)
- 539 spots since 2015 (#2,590 → #2,051)
- Biggest jump: 300 spots in 1986 (#513 → #213)
- Biggest drop: 172 spots in 1999 (#905 → #1,077)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 1986 at #213 (1,245 births)
- Births halved by 1988, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1985–1998
- Highest: 1 in 1,378 girls born in 1986 were named Sade (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,470 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 34.8% of all girls named Sade (3,474) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 3,474 | #213 (1986) | #381 |
| 1990s | 3,295 | #474 (1993) | #715 |
| 2000s | 1,914 | #788 (2001) | #1,251 |
| 2010s | 782 | #1,809 (2010) | #2,417 |
| 2020s | 516 | #2,051 (2025) | #2,177 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sade in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 2,773 of them was named Sade, which outranked 97.2% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 207,443 of them was named Sade, which outranked 43.9% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,239Zacharey10
- #4,239Zachrey10
- #4,239Zebedee10
- #4,573Sade9
- #4,573Abelino9
- #4,573Abhishek9
- #4,573Acie9
- #4,968Aarion8
- #4,968Abby8
- #4,968Abdelrahman8
Tied with 394 names at #4,573; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.