Given name & surname
Sade
“one who is honorable”
Sade is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who is honorable.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who is honorable.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sade through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10,102
- 121 boys · 9,981 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 1,259 babies
- 2025
- 100
- #2,058 for girls · #9,548 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +38%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 92 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 2,058 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 31.8% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,245 in 1986. It also appeared in 8 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, California and Texas shared the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (11 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,033 as a first name in 2020; 516 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.
Sade’s family of names
Sade has a related form in Shadae. Sade has a related form in Sharde. Sade has a related form in Shaday.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
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 Sade
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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