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Hadassah

#570 in 2025Girls' name

Myrtle

Hadassah has been given to 9,312 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #570 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 577 recorded.

Babies named Hadassah, 2025

1 in 6,270

Hadassah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hadassah: meaning, origin, and history

Myrtle

Hebrew

What Hadassah means

Hadassah means “myrtle”, associated with הֲדַסָּה.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hebrew הֲדַסָּה (“myrtle”), the Hebrew name of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hadassah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Hadassah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Hadassah comes through Hebrew הֲדַסָּה.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hadassah is pronounced /həˈdæsə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,312 girls were recorded with the name Hadassah between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 577 in 2024; its best national rank was #530 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #670 in 2020 to #570 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #705 in 2015 to #570 in 2025.

How common is Hadassah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,270
529 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,040
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#570
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,345 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hadassah 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,345 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hadassah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hadassahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hadassah was born before 2015 — so the typical Hadassah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,236
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (3,817).

Is Hadassah 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
−40
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+100
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+135
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.7%
Peak was 2024 (577)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#530
2024

Spellings of Hadassah

Hadassah is the most-used spelling, taking 80.9% of the 11,508 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Hadassah is used

Across 2016–2025, Hadassah was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 901 girls, against 1 in 3,184 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

3111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 901
  2. 2Montana1 in 1,667
  3. 3New York1 in 1,818
  4. 4Florida1 in 1,961
  5. 5Indiana1 in 2,083
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 2,083
  7. 7Maryland1 in 2,174
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 2,326

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.

Geographically, Hadassah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 70% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Hadassah around the world

Where Hadassah 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
    1996–2025
    #1,133
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #5,413
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #870
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Hadassah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#570
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 100
Best rank ever
#530
2024
Peak year
2024
577 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,312
Count in 2025
529

Names similar to Hadassah

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

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Names with a curve like Hadassah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hadassah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Hadassah

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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