Humanverse

Haden vs Hadia

American parents have registered 4,053 Hadens since 1880, against 610 Hadias. But in 2025 it was Hadia that was commoner, 34 babies to 30.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Haden Hadia

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 76 years and Hadia for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Haden Hadia
Total US births 4,053610
Most in one year 23934
Babies in 2025 3034
Estimated living today 3,800610
Median age today 2112
Peak year 20062025
Best rank 868th boys4,172nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,658th4,172nd
First recorded 19141988
Girls / boys 167 / 3,886610 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Hadens alive today are over 21; half the Hadias are over 12. That is 9 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 Haden Hadia
England and Wales 106571

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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