Hadleigh
Hadleigh was given to 198 girls in 2025, #1,171 among girls’ names; 4,467 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,440 Americans named Hadleigh 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 Hadleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hadleigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hadleigh is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Rare variant of Hadley.
/ˈhædli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hadleigh?
#1,171 among girls’ names, 2025
Hadleigh fell from #953 in 2015 to #1,171 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.12 per 1,000.
319 babies in 2016, the peak
Hadleigh peaked in 2016, when 319 girls were given it, #883 among girls’ names. The 198 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 198 | #1,171 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 214 | #1,129 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 254 | #1,002 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 275 | #968 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 297 | #907 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 263 | #969 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 259 | #998 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 277 | #955 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 296 | #905 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 319 | #883 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 285 | #953 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 314 | #870 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,049 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 197 | #1,233 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 164 | #1,396 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,532 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,492 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,176 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,067 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,634 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,897 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,843 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,054 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,964 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,424 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,032 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,392 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,160 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,991 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,980 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,078 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hadleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hadleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hadleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hadleigh, and how old are they?
4,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,467 Americans ever recorded as Hadleigh. The median Hadleigh alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 2,719 people named Hadleigh (2,700 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,012 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,470 |
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 Hadleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Hadleigh are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 25% 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 | 14 | #1,656 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 12 | #817 | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 12 | #403 | 2.2× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #727 | 2.1× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #930 | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 8 | #677 | 1.6× |
| Arkansas | 8 | #399 | 3.1× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #557 | 1.9× |
| South Carolina | 8 | #579 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 7 | #851 | 1.7× |
Where Hadleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hadleigh is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1994 it was given 3.1 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 Hadleigh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hadleigh
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 Hadleigh and names like it
- Compare Hadleigh and RailynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHadleigh peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hadleigh since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Hadleigh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Hadleigh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hadleigh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.