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Sadaf vs Sadee

American parents have registered 866 Sadees since 1880, against 662 Sadafs. But in 2025 it was Sadaf that was commoner, 22 babies to 7.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sadaf against Sadee, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sadaf Sadee

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 50 years in which either name was published, Sadee for 28 years and Sadaf for 22 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Sadaf Sadee
Total US births 662866
Most in one year 2748
Babies in 2025 227
Estimated living today 650860
Median age today 2518
Peak year 20242007
Best rank 4,893rd girls3,428th girls
Rank in 2025 5,554th11,932nd
First recorded 19761987
Girls / boys 662 / 0866 / 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 Sadafs alive today are over 25; half the Sadees are over 18. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Sadaf and Sadee.