Sade

Where Sade comes from

Sade hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1960
    Sade Adeniran born
    Nigerian novelist
  2. 1969
    Sade Baderinwa born
    American journalist
  3. 1985
    First appearance
    #513 among girls, 393 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1986
    Peak, #213
    1,245 babies named Sade — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #390.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sade Adeniran · Nigerian novelist, born 1960
  • Sade Baderinwa · American journalist, born 1969
  • Sade Kahra · Artist, political scientist, born 1974
  • Sade Elhawary · American politician and community organizer, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.