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Fadi

#12,616 in 2025Boys' name

Saviour

Fadi has been given to 816 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #12,616 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Fadi, 2025

1 in 663,000

Fadi over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fadi: meaning, origin, and history

Saviour

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fadi means

Fadi means “saviour”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fadi is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈfaː.diː/ for Fadi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 816 boys were recorded with the name Fadi between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1990; its best national rank was #2,257 in 1989.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,881 in 2020 to #12,616 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,813 in 2015 to #12,616 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Fadi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,616
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fadi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fadi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fadis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fadi was born before 1997 — so the typical Fadi is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
816
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (224).

Is Fadi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−6,047
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,735
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,803
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.1%
Peak was 1990 (31)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,257
1989

Spellings of Fadi

Fadi is not the most common spelling — Wade is, with 20.0% against Fadi's 0.21%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fadi is used

Across 1910–2025, Fadi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 375,903 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fadi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fadi around the world

Where Fadi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1974–2025
    #1,807
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fadi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,616
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,735
Best rank ever
#2,257
1989
Peak year
1990
31 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
816
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Fadi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Fadi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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