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 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#431 · 1 in 2,310
- Maryland#573 · 1 in 3,064
- Virginia#679 · 1 in 4,109
- New Jersey#692 · 1 in 4,161
- Florida#830 · 1 in 5,467
Best ever in a state: #45 in District of Columbia, 1986.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #431 | 42 | 1 in 2,310 |
| Maryland | #573 | 8 | 1 in 3,064 |
| Virginia | #679 | 9 | 1 in 4,109 |
| New Jersey | #692 | 10 | 1 in 4,161 |
| Florida | #830 | 15 | 1 in 5,467 |
| North Carolina | #982 | 7 | 1 in 6,350 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,000 | 7 | 1 in 7,919 |
| Georgia | #1,015 | 8 | 1 in 6,316 |
| Michigan | #1,072 | 6 | 1 in 8,040 |
| Ohio | #1,164 | 6 | 1 in 9,587 |
| Illinois | #1,255 | 7 | 1 in 9,785 |
| California | #1,321 | 21 | 1 in 10,897 |
| Texas | #1,601 | 12 | 1 in 13,273 |
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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 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 8,621 of them was named Sade, which outranked 94.3% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 396,996 of them was named Sade, which outranked 14.2% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).