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Sadaf

#5,679 in 2025Girls' name

Seashell, mother-of-pearl

Sadaf has been given to 662 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #5,679 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Sadaf, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sadaf: meaning, origin, and history

Seashell, mother-of-pearl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sadaf means

Sadaf means “seashell, mother-of-pearl”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 662 girls were recorded with the name Sadaf between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,096 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,591 in 2020 to #5,679 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,855 in 2015 to #5,679 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 Sadaf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,679
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sadaf 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sadaf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sadafs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sadaf was born before 2000 — so the typical Sadaf is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
662
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Choose a decade

1990s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (170).

Is Sadaf 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
−678
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+912
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,176
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.69×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.5%
Peak was 2024 (27)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,096
1987

Spellings of Sadaf

Sadaf is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 55.9% against Sadaf's 0.03%.

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 Sadaf is used

Across 1910–2025, Sadaf was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 361,614 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —
  5. 5Virginia1 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. Sadaf has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sadaf around the world

Where Sadaf 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
    1996–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • France
    1981–2025
    #2,321
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Sadaf by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,679
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 912
Best rank ever
#4,096
1987
Peak year
2024
27 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
662
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Sadaf

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

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Sibling names for Sadaf

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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