Hadiya
Hadiya was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,918 among girls’ names; 979 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hadiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hadiya?
#4,918 among girls’ names, 2025
Hadiya fell from #4,766 in 2015 to #4,918 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 16.8 per million.
49 babies in 2018, the peak
Hadiya peaked in 2018, when 49 girls were given it, #3,265 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,918 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,664 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,495 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,072 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,276 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,042 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,741 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,265 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,972 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,512 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,766 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,579 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,938 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,640 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,356 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,683 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,177 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,178 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,650 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,003 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,637 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,814 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,150 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,808 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,880 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,179 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,916 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,408 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,389 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,312 | 20.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,084 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,315 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,056 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,415 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,666 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,719 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,983 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,833 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,486 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,451 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,897 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,684 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,146 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,222 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hadiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hadiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hadiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hadiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 967 Americans named Hadiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 785 people named Hadiya (775 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 785 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,525 babies since 1880, Hadiya is the most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 77 babies (35%), the second most given that year.
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 Hadiya
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 Hadiya and names like it
- Compare Hadiya and HadiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Hadiya.
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