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Haden vs Hadiya

American parents have registered 4,053 Hadens since 1880, against 979 Hadiyas. Haden is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Haden Hadiya

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 83 years in which either name was published, Haden for 71 years and Hadiya for 12 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Haden Hadiya
Total US births 4,053979
Most in one year 23949
Babies in 2025 3027
Estimated living today 3,800970
Median age today 2115
Peak year 20062018
Best rank 868th boys3,245th girls
Rank in 2025 3,658th4,878th
First recorded 19141976
Girls / boys 167 / 3,886979 / 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 Hadiyas are over 15. That is 6 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 Hadiya
England and Wales 106817

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: Haden and Hadiya.