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Sade

girl name · Yoruba origin · 2 syllables

Meaning

a shortened form used as a given name; embraced in Black American families since the 1980s via singer Sade Adu

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 1980s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Sade peaked in the 1980s.

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