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Sadie

Say it: SAY-dee/ˈseɪdi/

GirlMeans a pet form of Sarah5 letters2 syllables

#5

in Ireland (2025)

258

babies in 2025

#5

best rank (2025)

2,895

babies since 1964

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10-year rank change

Sadie through the years

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Sadie: babies per year in Ireland, 1964 to 20250100200300196419701980199020002010202020251998: CSO series changePeak 2025: 258
Sadie: rank per year in Ireland, 1964 to 2025#1#10#50#100#250#500#1000196419701980199020002010202020251998: CSO series change
Sadie: per 10,000 girls per year in Ireland, 1964 to 2025050100150196419701980199020002010202020251998: CSO series change
Babies per 10,000 girls listed by the CSO that year, which evens out changes in the number of births.
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YearBabies (girls)Rank
2025258#5
2024216#9
2023200#17
2022201#21
2021219#19
2020205#21
2019202#25
2018230#19
2017224#22
2016190#31
2015198#32
2014157#39
201384#77
201242#139
201144#137
201036#177
200931#193
200829#194
200717#267
200610#369
200514#263
200412#287
200310#314
20028#352
20015#441
20006#379
19983#499
19954#451
19933#516
19854#456
19834#476
19814#471
19795#420
19763#497
19733#508
19723#471
19673#393
19665#310
19643#372

Source: CSO, Irish Babies' Names (VSA50, VSA60), CC BY 4.0.

★ What does Sadie mean?

A pet form of Sarah

English pet form of Sarah.

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SAYdee

The story of Sadie

Sadie started out as an English pet form of Sarah. It was already being given as a full name in the 1800s, and it is still sometimes used as a nickname for Sarah.

Sadie was already given to a few girls in Ireland in 1964, but for decades it was rare, and in many years it did not reach the three babies needed to appear in the CSO lists. It began to climb after 2008 and has kept going: 258 girls were named Sadie in 2025, its biggest year, when it reached number 5. Ten years earlier it was 32nd.

It is newer in Northern Ireland, where it reached its best rank so far, 11th, in 2025.

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Sources
  • Wiktionary: Sadie (English proper noun)
  • Wikipedia: Sadie (given name)
  • CSO VSA60, Girls Names in Ireland with 3 or More Occurrences
  • NISRA, First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland

At a glance

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Spellings counted here

Spelling2025All years
Sadie2582,895

In Northern Ireland

#11 in 2025 with 77 babies. Best rank #11 (2025); 528 babies since 2005.

Source: NISRA, Open Government Licence.

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