Hadlee
Hadlee was given to 281 girls in 2025, #931 among girls’ names; 5,258 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,220 Americans named Hadlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hadlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hadlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hadlee is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Rare variant of Hadley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hadlee?
#931 among girls’ names, 2025
Hadlee fell from #811 in 2015 to #931 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.17 per 1,000.
403 babies in 2016, the peak
Hadlee peaked in 2016, when 403 babies were given it (396 girls, #719 among girls’ names). The 281 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 281 | #931 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 281 | #940 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 299 | #895 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 329 | #852 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 381 | #746 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 314 | #859 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 291 | #910 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 346 | #792 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 320 | #854 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 396 | #719 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 346 | #811 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 290 | #930 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 289 | #890 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 199 | #1,222 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 182 | #1,295 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,681 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,212 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,450 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,424 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,647 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,020 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,931 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,053 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,211 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,427 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,219 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,025 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,441 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,564 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,960 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hadlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hadlee has been given almost only to girls: 24 boys in 30 years of records.
Girls and boys named Hadlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hadlee, and how old are they?
5,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,258 Americans ever recorded as Hadlee. The median Hadlee alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 3,125 people named Hadlee (3,075 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,150 |
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 Hadlee born?
The states with the most babies named Hadlee are Texas, Ohio and Alabama, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #964 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 17 | #602 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 14 | #353 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #738 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 12 | #816 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 10 | #421 | 5.8× |
| Kentucky | 10 | #425 | 2.4× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #929 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 9 | #706 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 8 | #753 | 1.6× |
Where Hadlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hadlee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1994 it was given 5.8 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 Hadlee 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 55,079 babies since 1880, Hadlee is the second most given (9.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 281 of their 2,574 babies (11%), 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 Hadlee
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 Hadlee and names like it
- Compare Hadlee and HadleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHadlee peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hadlee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Hadlee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Hadlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hadlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.