Hadia
Feminine · “gift”
Hadia is the Arabic word for a gift, and the same root gives the word for a guide — the connection being that both are things offered.
How old is the name Hadia?
Hadia first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Hadia is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Hadia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Hadia most popular?
Hadia peaked in 2025, reaching #4172 nationally. Today it ranks #4172, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From hadiyya to Hadia
The story of Hadia
The root h-d-y produces hidaya, guidance, which is one of the central terms of Islamic thought, and hadiyya, a gift — the two senses coexist and commentators connect them. Hadia is used across the Arab world and South Asia, and Hadiya bint Khuwaylid appears in some accounts. It reaches American records with families from the Arab world, Pakistan and Somalia.
Meaning
gift; guide
From an Arabic root covering both guidance and giving; hadiyya is a gift and hadi is one who guides. Al-Hadi, the Guide, is among the divine names, and the guidance sense is the older.
How the name formed
- hadiyya
- Hadia
Related forms: Hadiyya · Hadia · Hediye
Pronouncing Hadia
HAH-dee-yah
Three syllables, first stressed. Arabic gives ha-DEE-yah.
Nicknames for Hadia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 202534 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4172reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +6.3%34 in 2025, from 32
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Hadia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Hadiyya in Arabic — spelling variant
- Hadia in Urdu — same name
- Hediye in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Virginia.
Hadias among us
people named Hadia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 47,273 born in 2025 was named Hadia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Hadia
- #4172
- Hadia on the 2025 chart
- #883
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Hadia went to 34 girls in 2025, but Hadiya, Hadiyah and Hadya are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 77, which makes it the 883rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,289 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 20,874 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,273 for Hadia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Gimena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Hadia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gimena climbed just as high around 2004, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gimena's path sketches the road Hadia is walking now.
Hadia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Hadia is headed
Hadia looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Hadia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Hadia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with two good senses connected by a real idea.
- Dia is a complete short form in several languages.
- Recognized across the Arab world and South Asia.
- The stress differs between the Arabic and American readings.
- Hadia, Hadiya and Hadiyah are all in use and none is dominant in English.
- The h is fully sounded in Arabic and English speakers soften it.
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Feminine · #4172 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Hadias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Hadia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Hadia?
- Hadia is the most-used spelling in US records — 34 of the 77 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Hadiya, Hadiyah and Hadya.
- How popular is the name Hadia in 2025?
- Hadia ranks #4172 among US girl names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Hadia?
- About 1 in every 47,273 US girls born in 2025 was named Hadia — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Hadia with classmates?
- Hadia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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