Sada vs Saddie
American parents have registered 1,308 Sadas since 1880, against 854 Saddies. Sada is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Sada Saddie
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 121 years in which either name was published, Saddie for 61 years and Sada for 60 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.
- 1880–1896 Sada ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1910–1962 Saddie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1975–2009 Sada ahead
- 2012–2018 Saddie ahead
- 2019–2021 Sada ahead
16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Sada | Saddie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,308 | 854 |
| Most in one year | 81 | 20 |
| Babies in 2025 | 13 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 920 | 390 |
| Median age today | 33 | 22 |
| Peak year | 1986 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 1,515th girls | 1,773rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 7,885th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1887 |
| Girls / boys | 1,308 / 0 | 854 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Sadas alive today are over 33; half the Saddies are over 22. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Sada California (2.1×)
- Saddie Mississippi (52.1×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sada and Saddie.