Hadassah
Hadassah was given to 529 girls in 2025, #570 among girls’ names; 9,312 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,160 Americans named Hadassah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hadassah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hadassah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hadassah is “a female given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “myrtle” (הֲדַסָּה).
Borrowed from Hebrew הֲדַסָּה (“myrtle”), the Hebrew name of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.
/həˈdæsə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hadassah?
#570 among girls’ names, 2025
Hadassah rose from #705 in 2015 to #570 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.23 to 0.33 per 1,000.
577 babies in 2024, the peak
Hadassah peaked in 2024, when 577 girls were given it, #530 among girls’ names. The 529 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 529 | #570 | 0.33 |
| 2024 | 577 | #530 | 0.36 |
| 2023 | 488 | #612 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 489 | #609 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 418 | #691 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 427 | #670 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 429 | #674 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 390 | #728 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 399 | #720 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 445 | #656 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 405 | #705 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 403 | #700 | 0.23 |
| 2013 | 359 | #758 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 321 | #834 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 342 | #791 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 324 | #829 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 295 | #918 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 276 | #971 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 268 | #996 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 150 | #1,475 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 142 | #1,483 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,859 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,824 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,084 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,862 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,035 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 71 | #2,138 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,107 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,238 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,596 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,522 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,119 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,061 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,647 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,669 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,740 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,190 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,327 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,359 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,384 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,295 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,212 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,241 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,316 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,055 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,583 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,692 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,024 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,710 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,720 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,443 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,442 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,158 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,856 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,931 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,015 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,444 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,947 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,996 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,676 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,817 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,702 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,327 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,155 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,521 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,299 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,723 | under 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,565 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hadassah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hadassah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hadassah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hadassah, and how old are they?
9,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,312 Americans ever recorded as Hadassah. The median Hadassah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 5,485 people named Hadassah (5,456 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 39 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 137 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 496 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,750 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,720 |
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 Hadassah born?
The states with the most babies named Hadassah are New Jersey, New York and Texas, with 31% 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 | 54 | #146 | 2.7× |
| New York | 50 | #338 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 42 | #717 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 39 | #475 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #316 | 1.0× |
| California | 31 | #922 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 17 | #399 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #617 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 17 | #463 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 16 | #342 | 0.9× |
Where Hadassah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hadassah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1910 it was given 2.7 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 Hadassah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 11,843 babies since 1880, Hadassah is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 529 of their 672 babies (79%), again the 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 Hadassah
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 Hadassah and names like it
- Compare Hadassah and HadassaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHadassah peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hadassah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Hadassah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hadassah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hadassah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.