Shadie
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shadie has been given to 117 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 19 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.
Babies named Shadie, 2003
1 in 634,000
Shadie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shadie over time
In 2003, Shadie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shadie?
Shadie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 634,000
- 6 of 3,801,425 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 304,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 439,159 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shadie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 439,159 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shadie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shadies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shadie was born before 1995 — so the typical Shadie is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 51.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 91
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (52).
Is Shadie 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1994 (19)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 80.7% average annual change
Spellings of Shadie
Shadie is not the most common spelling — Sadie is, with 40.8% against Shadie'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.
Shadie around the world
Where Shadie 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.
- South Australia1994–1994#531in 1994
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shadie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shadie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shadie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.