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Haddon vs Hadi

American parents have registered 2,541 Hadis since 1880, against 874 Haddons. Hadi is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haddon against Hadi, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haddon Hadi

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 44 years in which either name was published, Hadi for 43 years and Haddon for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Haddon Hadi
Total US births 8742,541
Most in one year 64142
Babies in 2025 44142
Estimated living today 8602,500
Median age today 812
Peak year 20202025
Best rank 2,366th boys1,341st boys
Rank in 2025 2,833rd1,341st
First recorded 19241980
Girls / boys 53 / 8216 / 2,535

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 Hadis alive today are over 12; half the Haddons are over 8. That is 4 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 Haddon Hadi
England and Wales 31,106

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: Haddon and Hadi.