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Hadassa vs Hadleigh

American parents have registered 4,467 Hadleighs since 1880, against 1,647 Hadassas. Hadleigh is still ahead, with 198 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hadassa against Hadleigh, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hadassa Hadleigh

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 45 years in which either name was published, Hadleigh for 28 years and Hadassa for 17 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Hadassa Hadleigh
Total US births 1,6474,467
Most in one year 131319
Babies in 2025 121198
Estimated living today 1,6004,400
Median age today 98
Peak year 20242016
Best rank 1,598th girls883rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,692nd1,170th
First recorded 19661994
Girls / boys 1,647 / 04,467 / 0

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.

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 Hadassa Hadleigh
England and Wales 163229

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: Hadassa and Hadleigh.