Zadie

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Zadie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 115 births. Its best rank was 538th, in 1881.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1150.01% of girls
Peak year: 2016174 births
Best rank: #538in 1881
Since 1881: 3,530people given the name

Babies named Zadie, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

3,530 girls have been named Zadie in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 174 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 33%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Zadie
1880s	74
1890s	101
1900s	164
1910s	236
1920s	272
1930s	153
1940s	145
1950s	62
1960s	10
1970s	7
1980s	5
1990s	56
2000s	395
2010s	1,157
2020s	693

In 2016, its biggest year

Zadie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Zadie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.