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Haden vs Hadiyah

American parents have registered 4,053 Hadens since 1880, against 599 Hadiyahs. Haden is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Haden Hadiyah

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 74 years and Hadiyah for 9 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Haden Hadiyah
Total US births 4,053599
Most in one year 23927
Babies in 2025 3011
Estimated living today 3,800590
Median age today 2122
Peak year 20062000
Best rank 868th boys4,400th girls
Rank in 2025 3,658th8,860th
First recorded 19141976
Girls / boys 167 / 3,886599 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Haden Hadiyah
England and Wales 106465

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 Hadiyah.