Sadhbh

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Sadhbh: Recorded since 1971, it reached #32 in 2022, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
82times a registrar ranked it
55years from first to last
#32highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3998
2004	#3725
2006	#5061
2009	#5556
2011	#5785
2012	#5876
2014	#4003
2016	#4763
2017	#4763
2018	#3985
2019	#3151
2020	#2615
2021	#2942
2022	#4645
2023	#3598
2024	#3318

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 50 of the 55 years from 1971 to 2025.

In 2024: #38 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #253 among girls in Northern Ireland, #3318 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1971–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1971
First recorded at #466 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1971 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1971–2025
Highest recorded position: #32 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2022 (recorded 1971–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #32 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Sadhbh appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 50 years beginning in 1971, and has registered 3,078 births with the name.

Sadhbh 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.

Sadhbh'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#466 (1971)	#32 (2022)	#32 (2025)	50 of 55	3,078 (1971–2025)	153 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#3998 (2001)	#2615 (2020)	#3318 (2024)	16 of 24	78 (2001–2024)	9 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#384 (2006)	#237 (2021)	#253 (2024)	16 of 19	77 (2006–2024)	7 (2019)

Sadhbh by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Sadhbh in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	22	6 of 10	4
1980s	60	8 of 10	8
1990s	250	10 of 10	25
2000s	741	10 of 10	74
2010s	1,208	10 of 10	121
2020sbusiest	797	6 of 10	133

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 133 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 36, from 108 to 144.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Sadhbh 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 2025. Highest recorded position: #32 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Sadhbh'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	#3318	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#253	6	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#264	6	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#305	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#237	7	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#243	7	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#269	6	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#314	5	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#363	4	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#366	4	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#309	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#311	5	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#32	129	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#38	117	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#40	120	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#32	153	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#35	150	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#39	128	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#37	145	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#52	114	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#61	104	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#57	108	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#53	123	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#44	144	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#67	108	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#61	113	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#56	132	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#64	117	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#69	111	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#67	107	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#70	95	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#76	78	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#73	77	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#86	65	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#75	66	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#94	52	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#103	47	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#101	43	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#165	22	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#107	35	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#110	46	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#181	25	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#187	23	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#171	25	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#204	19	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#172	27	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#224	17	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#281	11	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#285	11	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#381	6	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#310	10	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#252	15	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#438	5	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#423	5	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	4	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#428	4	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 2025, ranked in 50 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #32, first reached in 2022.

It held a top-100 place in 24 years, 24 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 153 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 2022.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 35 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.

Sadaf · #1222, 29y
Sadbh · #151, 32y
Sadia · #225, 52y
Sadie · #5, 42y

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.

Lukasz · #34, 50y
Marcin · #42, 49y
Mathilde · #20, 53y
Sanna · #45, 49y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

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

Reuben · #32, 43y
Rochelle · #32, 51y
Billie · #33, 35y
Esme · #33, 33y

Sadhbh was ranked #32 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2022. 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.

Sadhbh 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 Sadhbh without appearing here.

Sadhbh moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.
Josefine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4763 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.
Dianne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4003 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #5581.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Sadhbh

Fiadh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4003 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4763 and #2757.
Ada Compare
In 2015 they stood at #269 and #358 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #440 and #137.
Thea Compare
In 2013 they stood at #383 and #451 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #314 and #106.
Robyn Compare
In 1987 they stood at #310 and #329 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1988 that had become #381 and #237.

Moved the opposite way to Sadhbh

Aisling Compare
Between 1971 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sadhbh went from #466 to #32 while Aisling went from #58 to #180.
Alison Compare
Between 1971 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sadhbh went from #466 to #32 while Alison went from #76 to #213.
Amanda Compare
Between 1971 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sadhbh went from #466 to #32 while Amanda went from #56 to #608.
Andrea Compare
Between 1971 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sadhbh went from #466 to #32 while Andrea went from #90 to #304.

Moved the same way as Sadhbh

Alexandra Compare
Between 1971 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sadhbh went from #466 to #32 and Alexandra from #257 to #141.
Alice Compare
Between 1971 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sadhbh went from #466 to #32 and Alice from #124 to #41.
Amelia Compare
Between 1971 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sadhbh went from #466 to #32 and Amelia from #466 to #12.
Amy Compare
Between 1971 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sadhbh went from #466 to #32 and Amy from #277 to #138.

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 2025. Highest recorded position: #32 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sadhbh

Sadhbh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sadhbh across 3 official records

Sadhbh by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Sadhbh appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Sadhbh

Sadhbh and the names beside it

Sadhbh moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sadhbh

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Moved the same way as Sadhbh

Sadhbh at a glance

Sadhbh across 3 official records

Sadhbh by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Sadhbh 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 Sadhbh

Sadhbh and the names beside it

Sadhbh moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sadhbh

Moved the opposite way to Sadhbh

Moved the same way as Sadhbh