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Hadasa vs Haden

American parents have registered 4,053 Hadens since 1880, against 549 Hadasas. Haden is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hadasa against Haden, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hadasa Haden

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Haden for 77 years and Hadasa for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Hadasa Haden
Total US births 5494,053
Most in one year 43239
Babies in 2025 2230
Estimated living today 5503,800
Median age today 1121
Peak year 20152006
Best rank 3,595th girls868th boys
Rank in 2025 5,554th3,658th
First recorded 19971914
Girls / boys 549 / 0167 / 3,886

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Hadens alive today are over 21; half the Hadasas are over 11. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Hadasa Haden
England and Wales 46106

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hadasa and Haden.