Hadasa
Hadasa was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,614 among girls’ names; 549 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hadasa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hadasa?
#5,614 among girls’ names, 2025
Hadasa fell from #3,619 in 2015 to #5,614 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.1 to 13.7 per million.
43 babies in 2015, the peak
Hadasa peaked in 2015, when 43 girls were given it, #3,619 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,614 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,059 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,036 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,815 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,628 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,337 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,259 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,059 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,605 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,287 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,619 | 24.1 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,039 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,886 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,151 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,429 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,681 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,725 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,189 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,189 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,000 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,212 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,004 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,488 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,346 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,242 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,555 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,542 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hadasa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hadasa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hadasa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hadasa, and how old are they?
An estimated 545 Americans named Hadasa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 435 people named Hadasa (432 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 428 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Hadasa?
Hadasa is a less common spelling of Hadassah: SSA has recorded 549 Hadasa and 9,312 Hadassah since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,667 babies since 1880, Hadasa is the third most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 672 babies (3.3%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hadasa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hadasa and names like it
- Compare Hadasa and HadassahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHadasa peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hadasa since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Hadasa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hadasa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.