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Hadi

#1,342 in 2025Boys' name

Leader, guide

Hadi has been given to 2,541 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #1,342 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 142 recorded.

Babies named Hadi, 2025

1 in 23,300

Hadi over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hadi: meaning, origin, and history

Leader, guide

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hadi means

Hadi means “leader, guide”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,535 boys were recorded with the name Hadi between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 142 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,342 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,803 in 2020 to #1,342 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,879 in 2015 to #1,342 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Hadi between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #14,070 in 2024.

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 Hadi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 23,300
142 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 12,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,342
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,184 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hadi 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,184 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hadi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hadis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hadi was born before 2012 — so the typical Hadi is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,535
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (898).

Is Hadi 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
+270
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+461
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+537
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.82×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (142)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,342
2025

Spellings of Hadi

Hadi is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 33.5% against Hadi's 0.35%.

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 Hadi is used

Across 2016–2025, Hadi was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 2,381 boys, against 1 in 13,657 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

142 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 2,381
  2. 2Illinois1 in 8,333
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 11,111
  4. 4New York1 in 14,286
  5. 5Texas1 in 14,286
  6. 6Virginia1 in 14,286
  7. 7California1 in 16,667
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 33,333

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.

Hadi around the world

Where Hadi 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
    #438
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2012–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1960–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #333
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #622
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Hadi

People whose public names include Hadi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hadi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Hadi. Linked forms have their own page here.

ChadiShadi

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Hadi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,342
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 461
Best rank ever
#1,342
2025
Peak year
2025
142 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,535
Count in 2025
142

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,070
2024
Peak year
2024
6 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hadi

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

HadenHadleyAadiFadiHaddonHadesHaddenAdiShadiHadrianHadynHadyHaadiAmadiHadrielGadiHadidSadiChadiHadleeAbdulhadiHamadiHadeedRadi

Names with a curve like Hadi

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

JacariTahaShivZakariaCanonAvionSaifKainoaCadenceJiovanniKiranCiaran

Sibling names for Hadi

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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