Zadie

Where Zadie comes from

Zadie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #503
    #503 among girls with 11 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1954
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,753.
  3. 1975
    Zadie Smith born
    English novelist, essayist and short story writer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Zadie Smith · English novelist, essayist and short story writer, born 1975

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.