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If you like the name Sadie, you might want to look into the name Zadie.

I think not, because zaydie is Yiddish for grandfather, and what many Jewish children call their grandfather. (The male counterpart of Bubbie).

Sadie is a nickname for the name Sarah, as made famous by the wife of Abraham, mother of Issac, in the Bible.

Personal experiences with the name Sadie: | Edit

I was born in 1986 when the name wasn't super-common, every other person I met either had a grandmother, elderly mother or dog by the name. I have always gotten cooed over how cute my name is... however, coming from a Sadie who had it when it wasn't super-common, it's strange to see it starting to rise in the top name lists.

Nicknames for Sadie: | Edit

Sader tot, Sadie Lady, Sadie Bug, Sad, Sadie Mae, Sadie Sue

Meanings and history of the name Sadie: | Edit

Pre- women's lib, Sadie Hawkins Day was the day when girls invited boys on dates.

Famous real-life people named Sadie: | Edit

Actress Sadie Frost

Sadie in song, story & screen: | Edit

"Sexy Sadie", a song by the Beatles
Two songs by the British band Suede, "Sadie" and "The Sound of the Streets" mention a girl with this name
"Sadie the Cleaning Lady", a song by Australian singer John Farnham
Sadie Sadie, Married Lady, character and song from the movie Funny Girl
"Sadie", Joanna Newsom
"Sadie", a song by The Spinners
"Sadie Hawkin's Dance", a song by Relient K
"Sadie", a song by Alkaline Trio
"What Sadie Sang" is a children's book by Eve Rice.
Sadie is the name of Bette Midler's character in the 1988 movie "Big Business"
Sadie is the name of Mandy Moore's character in the 2007 movie "License to Wed"
Sadie is the name of one of the daugthers in the 2007 movie "Knocked Up".
In the comic strip "Li'l Abner", Sadie Hawkins was the daughter of one of Dogpatch's earliest settlers, Hekzebiah Hawkins. The "homeliest gal in all them hills". When she reached the age of 35, in desperation, her father called together all the unmarried men of Dogpatch and declared it "Sadie Hawkins Day". Specifically, a foot race was decreed, with Sadie in hot pursuit of the town's eligible bachelors - and matrimony as the consequence.