girls:
141.7k births since 1880
#279 (95th percentile)
boys:
241 births since 1889
#4345 (5th percentile)
overall:
142k births since 1880
#523 (93rd percentile)
The name Sadie is the #523 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 141,970 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #279 (95.1% percentile) for all time with 141,729 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,345 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 241 births since 1889.
Sadie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1889 for boys).
The name Sadie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sadie reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 95.3% percentile (ranked #46) with 2,489 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 3,702 births per million (ranked 69.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sadie ranks #57 for girls (94.1% percentile) with 2,050 births per million, which is 55.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sadie reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #545) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sadie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sadie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Sadie is pronounced as SAY-dee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SA-dee, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like S EY1 D IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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