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Saadia

#14,603 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Sadia

Saadia has been given to 659 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #14,603 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Saadia, 2025

1 in 553,000

Saadia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saadia: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sadia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saadia means

Saadia is a alternate transcription of Sadia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Saadia is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsaʕ.di.ja/ for Saadia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sadia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 659 girls were recorded with the name Saadia between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1964; its best national rank was #2,580 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,067 in 2020 to #14,603 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,380 in 2015 to #14,603 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 Saadia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,603
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saadia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saadia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saadias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saadia was born before 1989 — so the typical Saadia is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
659
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Choose a decade

1990s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Saadia 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
−4,473
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,464
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,223
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.6%
Peak was 1964 (21)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,580
1954

Spellings of Saadia

Saadia is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 76.0% against Saadia's 0.06%.

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 Saadia is used

Across 1910–2025, Saadia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 518,530 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Saadia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saadia around the world

Where Saadia 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
    1996–2017
    #4,763
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    1975–2009
    #783
    in 2009
  • France
    1955–2025
    #5,744
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2005
    #2,828
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1960–1970
    #707
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Saadia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,603
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,464
Best rank ever
#2,580
1954
Peak year
1964
21 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
659
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Saadia

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

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Sibling names for Saadia

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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