Hadi vs Hadiyah

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Hadi 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 50 years in which either name was published, Hadi for 41 years and Hadiyah for 9 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

• 1976–1981 Hadiyah ahead
• 1982 Hadi ahead
• 1983 Hadiyah ahead
• 1984 Hadi ahead
• 1985 Hadiyah ahead
• 1986–1993 Hadi ahead
• 1994 Hadiyah ahead
• 1995–2025 Hadi ahead

Side by side

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 Hadiyahs alive today are over 22; half the Hadis are over 12. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

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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