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Hadlee

#931 in 2025Girls' name

Heath + woodland clearing, through Hadley

Hadlee has been given to 5,258 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #931 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 396 recorded.

Babies named Hadlee, 2025

1 in 11,800

Hadlee over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hadlee: meaning, origin, and history

Heath + woodland clearing, through Hadley

surname transfer

What Hadlee means

Hadlee belongs to the name family reached through Hadlee → Hadley. Its meaning is “heath + woodland clearing”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hadlee is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Hadlee is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hadley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,234 girls were recorded with the name Hadlee between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 396 in 2016; its best national rank was #719 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #859 in 2020 to #931 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #811 in 2015 to #931 in 2025.

In the United States, 24 boys were recorded with the name Hadlee between 2002 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2016; its best national rank was #9,915 in 2020.

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 Hadlee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,800
281 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,720
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#931
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,179 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hadlee 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,179 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hadlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hadlees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hadlee was born before 2017 — so the typical Hadlee is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,234
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.2% of all recorded uses (2,785).

Is Hadlee 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
+9
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−72
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−120
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.0%
Peak was 2016 (396)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#719
2016

Spellings of Hadlee

Hadlee is not the most common spelling — Hailey is, with 18.4% against Hadlee's 0.53%.

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 Hadlee is used

Across 2016–2025, Hadlee was most concentrated in Wyoming — about 1 in 847 girls, against 1 in 4,307 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 33,333).

3118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wyoming1 in 847
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 1,000
  3. 3Idaho1 in 1,010
  4. 4Utah1 in 1,075
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 1,149
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 1,149
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 1,333
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 1,724

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, Hadlee is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 86% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Hadlee around the world

Where Hadlee 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.

  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hadlee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#931
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 72
Best rank ever
#719
2016
Peak year
2016
396 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,234
Count in 2025
281

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,915
2020
Peak year
2016
7 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hadlee

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

HaddieRayleeZayleeOakleeAdaleeMayleeKynleeEmaleeHadleighHadiyaHarleeJayleeCayleeHadeelHadassaKinleeHadlieSkyleeRhyleeBryleeKinsleeHadassahKenleeAnalee

Names with a curve like Hadlee

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

KinsleeTinsleyHarmoniHadleighAubrielleAvalynnAubriellaMalayahLivItzayanaNalaAlianna

Sibling names for Hadlee

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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