Sadio
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Meaning
“West African given name of the Mandé region, meaning uncertain; famously borne by Sadio Mané”
The story
Sadio is a West African name from the Mandé cultural region, its meaning uncertain, passed down in Senegal and its neighbors long before it appeared on any Western chart. The world knows it through Sadio Mané, the forward from the small Senegalese village of Bambali who left home as a boy chasing soccer and became one of Africa's greatest players: a Champions League winner with Liverpool in 2019, the hero of Senegal's first Africa Cup of Nations title in 2022, and twice named African Footballer of the Year. Just as remarkable is what he sent back, funding a hospital and a school in Bambali and famously asking why a man would need ten Ferraris. In US records Sadio is genuinely rare, showing essentially nothing until a first trace in the 2020s: a name that comes with warmth, humility, and a hero already attached.
How popular is Sadio around the world?
In the United States, 5 babies were named Sadio between 2020 and 2025. In France, about 25 girls named Sadio were born in 2025, ranked 1,461st among girls that year.
Sadio is on the official records of the United States, France, Spain and Brazil.
United States
1 in 4.4M
In the United States, 5 babies were named Sadio between 2020 and 2025.
Sadio appears in US Social Security baby-name records only in small numbers: never enough in any decade to draw a popularity curve.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
France
1 in 14,000
In France, about 25 girls named Sadio were born in 2025, ranked 1,461st among girls that year.
In France, about 20 boys named Sadio were born in 2025, ranked 1,622nd among boys that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
Spain
1 in 78,000
In Spain, 464 residents are named Sadio, ranked 2,428th among men, with a mean age of 33 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Argentina
last on record 2022
Sadio is not on the 2024 record for Argentina, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 64 people in Brazil were named Sadio, ranked 56,233rd, with a median age of 48.
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Not on the record in Mexico City, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Sadio deep dive
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