Shadi

Where Shadi comes from

Borrowed from Arabic شَادِي (šādī), Iranian Persian شَادی (šâdi).
— Wiktionary's entry for Shadi
  • Arabic
  • Persian
  • Vowel-ended
Shadi through the years
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #4,309 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Peak, #1,955
    27 babies named Shadi, the most in any year.
  3. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #5,725.
  4. 2016
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Arabic or Persian.
Namesakes

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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.