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Saddie vs Sadee

American parents have registered 866 Sadees since 1880, against 854 Saddies. Sadee is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Saddie 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 95 years in which either name was published, Saddie for 56 years and Sadee for 39 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Saddie Sadee
Total US births 854866
Most in one year 2048
Babies in 2025 under 57
Estimated living today 390860
Median age today 2218
Peak year 19172007
Best rank 1,773rd girls3,428th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked11,932nd
First recorded 18871987
Girls / boys 854 / 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 Saddies alive today are over 22; half the Sadees are over 18. That is 4 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: Saddie and Sadee.