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Hagar

#15,723 in 2025Girls' name

Stranger

Hagar has been given to 157 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #15,723 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Hagar, 2025

1 in 663,000

Hagar over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hagar: meaning, origin, and history

Stranger

Hebrew

What Hagar means

Hagar means “stranger”, associated with Hagar.

Origin, language, and formation

Hagar is used in English and Ewe. Its origins include Hebrew.

Hagar comes through Hebrew הָגָר.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include هَاجَر.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hagar is pronounced /ˈheɪɡɑːɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 157 girls were recorded with the name Hagar between 1905 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,065 in 1905.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,410 in 2015 to #15,723 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hagar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,723
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hagar 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hagar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hagars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hagar was born before 2001 — so the typical Hagar is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
137
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Choose a decade

2000s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Hagar 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,687
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 1998 (11)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,065
1905

Spellings of Hagar

Hagar is not the most common spelling — Hana is, with 28.9% against Hagar'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.

Hagar around the world

Where Hagar 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
    2024–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1995–2007
    #5,158
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Hagar by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,723
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,065
1905
Peak year
1998
11 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
157
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Hagar

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

HaganHagenHagerSugarNegarEdgarIngar

Sibling names for Hagar

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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