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Hadi vs Hadrian

American parents have registered 2,541 Hadis since 1880, against 829 Hadrians. Hadi is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hadi against Hadrian, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hadi Hadrian

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 46 years in which either name was published, Hadi for 43 years and Hadrian for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Hadi Hadrian
Total US births 2,541829
Most in one year 14250
Babies in 2025 14250
Estimated living today 2,500820
Median age today 1212
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 1,341st boys2,604th boys
Rank in 2025 1,341st2,604th
First recorded 19801970
Girls / boys 6 / 2,5350 / 829

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.

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 Hadi Hadrian
England and Wales 1,10665
France 670120
Poland 92

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: Hadi and Hadrian.