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Hades

#2,900 in 2025Boys' name

Unseen

Hades has been given to 266 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #2,900 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Hades, 2025

1 in 77,100

Hades over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hades: meaning, origin, and history

Unseen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hades means

Hades means “unseen”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 261 boys were recorded with the name Hades between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,900 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,227 in 2020 to #2,900 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,912 in 2015 to #2,900 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Hades between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2023; its best national rank was #16,030 in 2023.

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.

How common is Hades?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 39,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,900
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hades sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hades. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hadess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hades was born before 2021 — so the typical Hades is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
72.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
261
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 72.0% of all recorded uses (188).

Is Hades 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
+826
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+327
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,012
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (43)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,900
2025

Spellings of Hades

Hades is not the most common spelling — James is, with 89.5% against Hades's <0.01%.

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 Hades is used

Across 1910–2025, Hades was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 767,404 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Hades has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hades around the world

Where Hades 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
    2017–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    2008–2025
    #3,132
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

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

Hades by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,900
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 327
Best rank ever
#2,900
2025
Peak year
2025
43 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
261
Count in 2025
43

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,030
2023
Peak year
2023
5 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hades

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

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Sibling names for Hades

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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