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Sada vs Sadee

American parents have registered 1,308 Sadas since 1880, against 866 Sadees. Sada is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sada against Sadee, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sada 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 97 years in which either name was published, Sada for 69 years and Sadee for 28 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Sada Sadee
Total US births 1,308866
Most in one year 8148
Babies in 2025 137
Estimated living today 920860
Median age today 3318
Peak year 19862007
Best rank 1,515th girls3,428th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th11,932nd
First recorded 18801987
Girls / boys 1,308 / 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 Sadas alive today are over 33; half the Sadees are over 18. That is 15 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: Sada and Sadee.