Sadia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sadia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sadia: Recorded since 1971, it reached #225 in 1982, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
54years from first to last
#225highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#372
1997	#353
1998	#339
1999	#419
2000	#361
2001	#350
2002	#348
2003	#408
2004	#424
2005	#499
2006	#549
2007	#727
2008	#710
2009	#795
2010	#1013
2011	#1043
2012	#1210
2013	#1639
2014	#1501
2015	#1279
2016	#1327
2017	#2341
2018	#1586
2019	#2869
2020	#1773
2021	#3192
2022	#1685
2023	#1863
2024	#2574

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 29 of the 42 years from 1971 to 2012.

In 2012: #601 among girls in Norway, #1210 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1971–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1971
First recorded at #600 among girls in Norway in 1971 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1971–2012
Highest recorded position: #225 among girls in Norway, in 1982 (recorded 1971–2012).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Sadia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1971, and has registered 239 births with the name.

Sadia across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sadia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#600 (1971)	#225 (1982)	#601 (2012)	29 of 42	239 (1971–2012)	23 (1982)
England and Wales · Girls	#372 (1996)	#339 (1998)	#2574 (2024)	29 of 29	1,379 (1996–2024)	100 (1998)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#677 (2004)	#862 (2008)	2 of 5	6 (2004–2008)	3 (2004)

Sadia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sadia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	358	4 of 10	90
2000sbusiest	736	10 of 10	74
2010s	220	10 of 10	22
2020s	65	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 74 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births fell by 26, from 100 to 74.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sadia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1971 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #225 in Norway in 1982.

Sadia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1863	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1773	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1586	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1327	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1279	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1639	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1210	27	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1043	33	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#795	44	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#710	50	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#727	46	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#549	65	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#499	70	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#424	85	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#408	88	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#348	100	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#350	97	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#361	91	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#419	74	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#339	100	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#353	94	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#372	90	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#601	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#614	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#610	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#577	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#528	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#655	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#550	6	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#542	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#600	5	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#621	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#620	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#399	11	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#404	11	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#541	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#438	10	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#352	13	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#336	14	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#524	7	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#368	11	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#225	23	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#345	12	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#316	14	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#346	12	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#330	13	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#385	10	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#575	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#626	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#624	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#600	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1971 and 2024, ranked in 52 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #225, first reached in 1982.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 100 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 33 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Sadbh · #151, 32y
Sadhbh · #32, 50y
Sadie · #5, 42y
Sadie-Mae · #885, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ramona · #227, 57y
Liza · #220, 55y
Adil · #231, 50y
Julius · #231, 55y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Daria · #224, 47y
Dominika · #226, 47y
Elma · #224, 41y
Eoghain · #224, 23y

Sadia was ranked #225 in Norway · Girls in 1982. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sadia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sadia without appearing here.

Sadia moved ahead of

Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1586 and #4684.
Suzanne Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3192 and #2942 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1685 and #3970.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #3695.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #3318.

Moved ahead of Sadia

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1773 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1286.
Ann Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1773 and #1939 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1351.
Eileen Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1586 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #1316.
Shania Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #2063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #1353.

Moved the opposite way to Sadia

Emilie Compare
Between 1977 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Sadia went from #385 to #601 while Emilie went from #500 to #6.
Vilde Compare
Between 1977 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Sadia went from #385 to #601 while Vilde went from #581 to #14.
Emily Compare
Between 1978 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Sadia went from #330 to #601 while Emily went from #425 to #59.
Linnea Compare
Between 1978 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Sadia went from #330 to #601 while Linnea went from #626 to #5.

Moved the same way as Sadia

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sadia went from #372 to #2574 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sadia went from #372 to #2574 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sadia went from #372 to #2574 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sadia went from #372 to #2574 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1971 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #225 in Norway in 1982. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sadia

Sadia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sadia across 3 official records

Sadia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sadia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

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Sadia and the names beside it

Sadia moved ahead of

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Sadia at a glance

Sadia across 3 official records

Sadia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sadia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Sadia

Sadia and the names beside it

Sadia moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sadia

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