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Haider

#2,063 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Haidar

Haider has been given to 1,077 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #2,063 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Haider, 2025

1 in 46,000

Haider over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haider: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Haidar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Haider means

Haider is a form of Haidar.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Haider → Haidar. The family’s meaning is “lion, warrior”, recorded in the naming reference for Haidar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Haidar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,077 boys were recorded with the name Haider between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 72 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,063 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,856 in 2020 to #2,063 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,496 in 2015 to #2,063 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.

How common is Haider?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,000
72 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,063
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haider 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haider. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haiders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haider was born before 2015 — so the typical Haider is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,077
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Choose a decade

2010s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (386).

Is Haider 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
+80
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+793
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+433
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (72)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,063
2025

Spellings of Haider

Haider is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 41.5% against Haider's 0.17%.

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 Haider is used

Across 2016–2025, Haider was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 29,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 12,500
  3. 3Michigan1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

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.

Haider around the world

Where Haider 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
    #306
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    1983–2025
    #3,596
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #697
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #754
    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 Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Haider by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,063
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 793
Best rank ever
#2,063
2025
Peak year
2025
72 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,077
Count in 2025
72

Names similar to Haider

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

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Sibling names for Haider

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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