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Hadassa

#1,695 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Hadassah

Hadassa has been given to 1,647 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #1,695 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 131 recorded.

Babies named Hadassa, 2025

1 in 27,400

Hadassa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hadassa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hadassah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hadassa means

Hadassa is a form of Hadassah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hadassa → Hadassah. The family’s meaning is “myrtle”, recorded in English with the source elements הֲדַסָּה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hadassah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,647 girls were recorded with the name Hadassa between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 131 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,603 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,864 in 2020 to #1,695 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,441 in 2015 to #1,695 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hadassa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,400
121 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,695
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,992 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hadassa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,992 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hadassa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hadassas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hadassa was born before 2016 — so the typical Hadassa is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,647
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (621).

Is Hadassa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−92
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,169
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+746
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.4%
Peak was 2024 (131)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,603
2024

Spellings of Hadassa

Hadassa is not the most common spelling — Hadassah is, with 80.9% against Hadassa's 14.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hadassa is used

Across 2016–2025, Hadassa was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,632 girls, against 1 in 11,969 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

238 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,632
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 4,167
  3. 3New York1 in 7,143
  4. 4Florida1 in 7,692
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 25,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 25,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 33,333
  8. 8California1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Hadassa around the world

Where Hadassa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2017–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • France
    1986–2025
    #1,172
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hadassa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,695
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,169
Best rank ever
#1,603
2024
Peak year
2024
131 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,647
Count in 2025
121

Names similar to Hadassa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hadassa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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