Sadie

Where Sadie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Sadie.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Sadie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #74 among girls, with 317 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1965
    Sadie Frost born
    English actress and producer
  3. 2001
    Sadie Stanley born
    American actress and singer
  4. 2014
    Peak, #46
    4,871 babies named Sadie, the most in any year.
  5. 2014
    The comeback
    Back to #46 after sinking to #1,259 in 1970.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Sarah. Also a popular formal given name in the 19th century.
Namesakes
  • Sadie Frost · English actress and producer, born 1965
  • Sadie Stanley · American actress and singer, born 2001
  • Sadie Plant · British writer, born 1964
  • Sadie Maubet Bjornsen · American cross-country skier, born 1989
  • Sadie Sandler · American actress, born 2006

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.