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Zadie

#2,193 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Zadie has been given to 3,615 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #2,193 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 174 recorded.

Babies named Zadie, 2025

1 in 39,000

Zadie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zadie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zadie means

Zadie is a given name.

The naming story behind Zadie

Wikidata records Zadie as a given name. The entity identifier is Q83609615, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,615 girls were recorded with the name Zadie between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 174 in 2016; its best national rank was #538 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,441 in 2020 to #2,193 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,635 in 2015 to #2,193 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 Zadie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,193
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zadie 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zadie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zadies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zadie was born before 2011 — so the typical Zadie is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,470
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (1,157).

Is Zadie 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
−423
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−752
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−558
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.9%
Peak was 2016 (174)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#538
1881

Spellings of Zadie

Zadie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 27.8% against Zadie's 0.19%.

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 Zadie is used

Across 2016–2025, Zadie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 14,826 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 7,692
  2. 2New York1 in 8,333
  3. 3Oregon1 in 9,091
  4. 4Texas1 in 10,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 12,500
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  8. 8Colorado1 in 20,000

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.

Zadie around the world

Where Zadie 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
    2003–2025
    #922
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    2009–2019
    #7,137
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Zadie

People whose public names include Zadie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zadie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,193
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 752
Best rank ever
#538
1881
Peak year
2016
174 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,615
Count in 2025
85

Names similar to Zadie

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

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Names with a curve like Zadie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zadie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zadie

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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