Hadassa
Hadassa was given to 121 girls in 2025, #1,695 among girls’ names; 1,647 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Hadassa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hadassa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hadassa?
#1,695 among girls’ names, 2025
Hadassa rose from #2,441 in 2015 to #1,695 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 42.0 to 75.3 per million.
131 babies in 2024, the peak
Hadassa peaked in 2024, when 131 girls were given it, #1,603 among girls’ names. The 121 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121 | #1,695 | 75.3 |
| 2024 | 131 | #1,603 | 80.9 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,948 | 62.9 |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,967 | 61.0 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,332 | 47.5 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,864 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,662 | 38.7 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,307 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,556 | 40.0 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,944 | 32.2 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #2,441 | 42.0 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,520 | 39.7 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,019 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,843 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,565 | 39.8 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,274 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,585 | 24.5 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,175 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,243 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,499 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,093 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,984 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,583 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,813 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,426 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,551 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,885 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,831 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,962 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,371 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,913 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,784 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,979 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,288 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,665 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,270 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,459 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,299 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,651 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,457 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,832 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,066 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,145 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,340 | 4.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,924 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hadassa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hadassa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hadassa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hadassa, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,647 Americans ever recorded as Hadassa. The median Hadassa alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,046 people named Hadassa (1,042 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,064 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 90 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 506 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Hadassa born?
The states with the most babies named Hadassa are New Jersey, New York and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 18 | #435 | 4.8× |
| New York | 15 | #997 | 2.7× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,017 | 1.7× |
| California | 12 | #1,781 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #454 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,839 | 0.4× |
| Connecticut | 5 | #567 | 0.3× |
Where Hadassa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hadassa is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1966 it was given 4.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hadassa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Hadassa?
Hadassa is a less common spelling of Hadassah: SSA has recorded 1,647 Hadassa and 9,312 Hadassah since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 11,843 babies since 1880, Hadassa is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 121 of their 672 babies (18%), again the second 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 Hadassa
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 Hadassa and names like it
- Compare Hadassa and HadassahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHadassa peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hadassa since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hadassa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hadassa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.