# Sadie (given name)

Sadie is a feminine given name which originated as an English diminutive of the Hebrew name Sarah. It has long been used as an independent name. It is also a hypocorism of Sara or Sarah, and on rare occasions a masculine nickname.

## Popularity

Sadie was among the top 100 names for girls in the late 1800s in the United States, then declined in use in the mid-twentieth century. It increased in popularity beginning in the mid-1980s and is popular across the English-speaking world. It has ranked among the top 200 names for newborn girls in England and Wales and among the top 100 names for girls in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in the 2010s.

## Cultural references

Sadie Hawkins, a character in the Li'l Abner comic strip, was the inspiration for Sadie Hawkins Day and Sadie Hawkins dances, where traditional gender roles are flipped and young women ask men out. The concept spread throughout America from 1937 onward. Australian singer John Farnham's debut single, "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" (November 1967), has Sadie as an ageing office cleaner. In Australia it reached No. 1 on the Go-Set National Singles chart in early 1968.
The name may refer to:

## Given name

* Sadie L. Adams (1872–1945), African-American teacher, suffragist, and clubwoman
* Sadie T. M. Alexander (1898–1989), African-American lawyer, activist, and economist, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in the United States and to practice law in Pennsylvania
* Sadie Alexandru (born 1977), American actress and model
* Sadie American (1862–1944), Jewish-American activist and social worker
* Sadie Barnette (born 1984), American artist
* Sadie Benning (born 1973), American video maker, visual artist and musician
* Sadie Maubet Bjornsen (born 1989), American cross-country skier
* Sadie Calvano (born 1997), American actress
* Sadie Coles (born 1963), British art dealer
* Sadie Peterson Delaney (1889–1958), American librarian who pioneered bibliotherapy, a therapy that uses reading to heal
* Sadie Docherty (born 1956), Scottish politician
* Sadie Engelhardt (born 2006), American middle-distance runner
* Sadie Farrell (fl. 1869), American criminal, gang leader and river pirate also known as "Sadie the Goat"
* Sadie Forman (1929–2014), South African teacher, librarian and anti-apartheid activist
* Sadie Frost (born 1965), English actress, producer and fashion designer
* Sadie Gibbs (born 1992), English professional wrestler and gymnast
* Sadie O. Horton (1899–1997), American female mariner in World War II
* Sadie Jean (born 2002), American singer-songwriter
* Sadie Jones (born 1967), English writer and novelist
* Sadie Katz (born 1978), American actress, writer, director and producer
* Sadie Miller (born 1985), English actress
* Sadie Kneller Miller (1867–1920), early American woman sports journalist
* Sadie Morgan (born 1969), English designer
* Sadie Neakok (1916–2004), American first female magistrate in Alaska
* Sadie Grant Pack (1877–1960), first counselor in the general presidency of the Primary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Sadie Robertson (born 1997), Duck Dynasty reality television star
* Sadie Sink (born 2002), American actress
* Sadie Stanley (born 2001), American actress and singer
* Sadie Lea Weidner (1875–1939), American missionary to Japan

## Nickname
### Women

* Sara Sadie Bonnell (1888–1993), British ambulance driver and winner of the Military Medal
* Sarah Louise Delany (1889–1999), American author, educator and civil rights pioneer
* Sarah Sadie Dupuis (born 1988), American musician
* Josephine Earp (1860–1944), common-law wife of American Old West lawman Wyatt Earp
* Sarah "Sadie" Holloway, birth name of Elizabeth Holloway Marston (1893–1993), American attorney and psychologist credited with the co-development of the predecessor to the polygraph, inspiration for the character Wonder Woman
* Sarah Sadie Irvine (1885–1970), American artist and educator
* Sarah Sadie Martinot (1861–1923), American actress and singer
* Sarah Jane Sadie Plant (born 1964), British philosopher, cultural theorist and author
* Sarah Frances Price (1849–1903), American botanist and scientific illustrator

### Men

* Sargent Perry Sadie Houck (1856–1919), American Major League Baseball player
* John Joseph Sadie McMahon (1867–1954), American Major League Baseball pitcher

## Fictional characters

* Sadie, from the Canadian animated series Total Drama
* Sadie Adler, a supporting character in the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption 2
* Sadie Alexander, in the American television series That Girl Lay Lay
* Sadie Parker Knickerhaus Doyle, in the staged radio production The Thrilling Adventure Hour
* Sadie Gray, in the American television series One Life to Live
* Sadie Harris, in the American television series Grey's Anatomy
* Sadie Hawkins (disambiguation), multiple characters
* Sadie Hawthorne, in the Canadian television series Naturally, Sadie
* Sadie Jackson, the main character in Joan Lingard's The Kevin and Sadie series of novels
* Sadie Kane, a main character in the book series The Kane Chronicles
* Sadie King, in the UK television series Emmerdale
* Sadie Lloyd, in the UK television series Family Affair
* Sadie McKee, the title character of the 1934 film of same name
* Sadie Miller, a supporting character on the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe
* Sadie Stone, in the UK television series EastEnders
* Sadie Thompson, the main character of the short story "Rain" by W. Somerset Maugham and its adaptations