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Hadi vs Hadiya

American parents have registered 2,541 Hadis since 1880, against 979 Hadiyas. Hadi is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hadi against Hadiya, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hadi Hadiya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Hadi for 37 years and Hadiya for 13 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Hadi Hadiya
Total US births 2,541979
Most in one year 14249
Babies in 2025 14227
Estimated living today 2,500970
Median age today 1215
Peak year 20252018
Best rank 1,341st boys3,245th girls
Rank in 2025 1,341st4,878th
First recorded 19801976
Girls / boys 6 / 2,535979 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Hadiyas alive today are over 15; half the Hadis are over 12. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Hadi Hadiya
England and Wales 1,106817
France 670115
Scotland 3020

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hadi and Hadiya.