Saadiq
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Saadiq is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “friend”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Saadiq mean?
Arabic: spelling of Sadiq
“friend”
A male given name from Arabic.
Meaning borrowed from Sadiq. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Saadiq a girl's or a boy's name?
Saadiq is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saadiq in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,906among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 35% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Saadiq, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had the fewest boys named Saadiq since it first appeared, in 1995.
Half of all the boys named Saadiq in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Saadiq in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,336 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,735 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,048 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,486 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,400 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,620 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,572 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,920 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,065 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,658 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,299 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,029 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,259 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,810 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,445 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,670 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,060 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,829 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,645 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,450 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,390 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,274 |
Names like Saadiq
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza Zahir Muhammad Zayd Saif Ahmad Samir Abdullah Zamir Musa Said Ahmir
Names related to Saadiq
More Arabic names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Saadiq: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saadiq, updated 20 October 2026.