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Sadee vs Sadiya

American parents have registered 866 Sadees since 1880, against 508 Sadiyas. But in 2025 it was Sadiya that was commoner, 65 babies to 7.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sadee against Sadiya, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sadee Sadiya

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 40 years in which either name was published, Sadee for 32 years and Sadiya for 8 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Sadee Sadiya
Total US births 866508
Most in one year 4865
Babies in 2025 765
Estimated living today 860500
Median age today 1811
Peak year 20072025
Best rank 3,428th girls2,645th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd2,645th
First recorded 19871978
Girls / boys 866 / 0508 / 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 Sadees alive today are over 18; half the Sadiyas are over 11. 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: Sadee and Sadiya.