Given name & surname
Sadat
“master; Sayyid”
Sadat is a masculine given name from Arabic, meaning “master; Sayyid.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sadat through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 93
- 93 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 317 as a first name in 2020; 1,434 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sadat’s family of names
In Greek usage, Sadat is a transliteration of Σαντάτ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sadat
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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