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Haden vs Hadlee

American parents have registered 5,258 Hadlees since 1880, against 4,053 Hadens. Hadlee is still ahead, with 281 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haden against Hadlee, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haden Hadlee

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 63 years and Hadlee for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Haden Hadlee
Total US births 4,0535,258
Most in one year 239403
Babies in 2025 30281
Estimated living today 3,8005,200
Median age today 218
Peak year 20062016
Best rank 868th boys719th girls
Rank in 2025 3,658th928th
First recorded 19141994
Girls / boys 167 / 3,8865,234 / 24

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 Hadlees are over 8. That is 13 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 Hadlee
England and Wales 10617

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 Hadlee.