How many Shadis are there in the world?

No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Shadi are estimated to be alive in the US today.

How popular is the name Shadi in 2025?

Shadi ranks #8910 among US boy names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.

How rare is the name Shadi?

About 1 in every 213,510 US boys born in 2025 was named Shadi — 8 in all.

Will my child share the name Shadi with classmates?

Shadi will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Shadi

Masculine · “Arabic shadi”

Shadi is given to both — 719 boys and 247 girls since 1880. See other names given to both

#8910 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year

rare8 boys in 2025

Arabic and Persian use the same alphabet and share a great deal of vocabulary, which means that in Roman letters two entirely different words can arrive looking identical. Shadi is Arabic for singer and Persian for happiness, and the spelling gives no way to tell which one a bearer has.

How old is the name Shadi?

Shadi first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Shadi alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 700 people named Shadi are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Shadi most popular?

Shadi peaked in 1983, reaching #1955 nationally. Today it ranks #8910, 6,955 places below that high. See the whole 1983 chart.

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Where it comes from

From shadi to Shadi

The story of Shadi

Transliteration collisions of this kind are a specific problem for names from the Islamic world, because Persian, Urdu, Kurdish and Ottoman Turkish all wrote with the Arabic script while keeping their own vocabularies. The script marks consonants fully and short vowels barely, so two words that a native reader distinguishes by context become one string in Roman letters. Shadi is a clean example. So are Rahim and Raheem, Nadia and Nadiya, Sara and Sarah, and dozens of others where a single American spelling covers several distinct originals. Any reference book that gives one meaning for such a name has silently chosen a language. The honest answer is to name both sources and say that the record cannot decide, because on paper, in English, there is genuinely nothing left to decide it with.

Meaningscholars disagree

Arabic shadi, singer

Two unrelated sources produce the same Roman spelling. Arabic shadi is from the root sh-d-w, to sing or chant, giving singer or chanter. Persian shadi is from shad, happy, giving happiness or joy, and is used as a name for both sexes in Iran. The words are written differently in Arabic script and pronounced with different vowels, and the distinction is lost entirely in transliteration. The American peak is 1983.

How the name formed

shadi
Shadi

Related forms: Shadi · Shadi · Shady

Pronouncing Shadi

SHAH-dee

Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic says SHAH-dee; Persian is closer to shah-DEE. English readers may see the word shady, which is unrelated.

Nicknames for Shadi

Moderate

ShadThe first syllable alone, also an English fish name

ShaduA familiar extension used in Arabic-speaking families

What the data says

146 years of official birth records

The long climb, and where it stands now

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded: 1975
Most boys named: 198327 — the highest on record
Peak rank: #1955reached in 1983
Change vs 2024: 0.0%8 in 2025, from 8

Shadi sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1983, with 27 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Shadi in other languages

The same name elsewhere

Shadi in Arabic — same name
Shadi in Persian — related form
Shady in English — spelling variant

Shadis among us

700

people named Shadi are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 213,510 born in 2025 was named Shadi

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

What happens to a name after it peaks

The Dany test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shadi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dany climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dany's path sketches the road Shadi is walking now.

40%chance Shadi will feel dated by 2040

Shadi, aligned on its peakDany· peak 1954not yet written

Shadi today is about where Dany stood in 1996 — 42 years past a #1956-sized peak. By 2011, Dany had settled around #3557.

Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Shadi sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Shadi beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Shadi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Shadithis name8#8910Davie8#8910Ned8#8910Darious8#8910Alois8#8910

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths

Five letters and two syllables, easy in English.
It is a familiar name across the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds.
Both possible meanings are pleasant ones.

What to consider

It is one letter from the English word shady.
Two unrelated languages produce the same spelling.
It is used for women in Persian and men in Arabic.

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Frequently asked

How many Shadis are there in the world?: No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Shadi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Shadi in 2025?: Shadi ranks #8910 among US boy names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Shadi?: About 1 in every 213,510 US boys born in 2025 was named Shadi — 8 in all.
Will my child share the name Shadi with classmates?: Shadi will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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