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Saadia

Girl · SAA-dee-a · Arabic

Saadia is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “fortunate, happy”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Saadia mean?

Arabic: spelling of Sadia

“fortunate, happy”

From the Arabic root of sa'd, good fortune, which also gives the names Saad and Saeed.

Say it
SAA-dee-a

Meaning borrowed from Sadia. More on Wiktionary.

Is Saadia a girl's or a boy's name?

Saadia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Saadia in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 11 girls.

Half of all the girls named Saadia in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2009. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 11 in 19962022
Saadia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20221#7,487
20210–
20200–
20190–
20181#7,536
20174#4,967
20160–
20156#3,777
20143#5,920
20133#6,003
20120–
20116#3,737
20103#5,938
20098#2,909
20084#4,742
20076#3,396
20063#5,259
200511#2,061
20046#2,957
20034#3,768
20025#3,047
20015#2,928
20004#3,399
19997#2,295
199811#1,694
19976#2,552
199611#1,621

How popular is Saadia in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Saadia, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 1964, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1954.

Half of all the girls named Saadia in the US since 1880 were born between 1972 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

1954Busiest: 21 in 19642025
Saadia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
202410#9,551
20239#10,307
20220–
20210–
20205#15,083
20197#12,442
20180–
201711#9,337
20168#11,776
201512#8,926
20149#10,949
201311#9,607
20125#16,863
20115#16,756
20107#13,442
200910#10,675
20088#12,574
20079#11,626
200615#7,865
20055#16,455
20046#14,172
20038#11,319
200211#8,831
20015#15,345
20009#9,867
19997#11,378
199816#6,068
199714#6,478
199617#5,526
19959#8,761
199417#5,440
199312#7,031
199210#8,057
199116#5,653
199012#6,861
198910#7,443
198810#7,106
198714#5,307
198613#5,456
198511#6,029
198411#5,898
198311#5,822
198213#5,207
198111#5,884
19808#7,417
19799#6,694
197811#5,562
19776#8,442
197613#4,612
197512#4,852
19746#7,678
19730–
19726#7,290
19718#6,004
197010#5,060
196911#4,417
19689#4,778
196710#4,299
196612#3,739
196516#3,148
196421#2,751
19636#5,890
19620–
19610–
19600–
19595#6,244
19580–
19579#4,201
195610#3,909
195517#2,724
195419#2,518

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