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Hadleigh

#1,171 in 2025Girls' name

Heath + woodland clearing, through Hadley

Hadleigh has been given to 4,467 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,171 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 319 recorded.

Babies named Hadleigh, 2025

1 in 16,700

Hadleigh over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hadleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Heath + woodland clearing, through Hadley

surname transfer

What Hadleigh means

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

Origin, language, and formation

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

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hadley.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hadleigh is pronounced /ˈhædli/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,467 girls were recorded with the name Hadleigh between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 319 in 2016; its best national rank was #870 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #969 in 2020 to #1,171 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #953 in 2015 to #1,171 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.

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How common is Hadleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,700
198 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,120
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,171
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,607 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hadleigh 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,607 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hadleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hadleighs were born

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

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,467
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (2,493).

Is Hadleigh 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
−42
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−202
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−218
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.1%
Peak was 2016 (319)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#870
2014

Spellings of Hadleigh

Hadleigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 21.8% against Hadleigh's 2.8%.

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 Hadleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Hadleigh was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 1,163 girls, against 1 in 5,474 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

186 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 1,163
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 1,471
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 1,639
  4. 4Alabama1 in 1,724
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 1,786
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 1,923
  7. 7West Virginia1 in 2,128
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 2,381

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, Hadleigh 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

Hadleigh around the world

Where Hadleigh 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
    2012–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hadleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,171
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 202
Best rank ever
#870
2014
Peak year
2016
319 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,467
Count in 2025
198

Names similar to Hadleigh

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

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Names with a curve like Hadleigh

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

TinsleyAvalynnAubriellaAubrielleHadleeItzayanaMalayahBeatrixEvalynnRaylynnMayleeBrynley

Sibling names for Hadleigh

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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