Girl

Hadassah

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#570
529 girls
2015
#705
rank
1950
#4,949
rank

Hadassah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 529 in 2025. Its best rank was #530 in 2024.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #530 in 2024; #570 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hadassah in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#570 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #530.

Babies in 2025
529
Since 1880
9,312
Years on record
78

Babies named Hadassah, every year since 1880

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Girls

Hadassah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 529 girls in 2025. Peak: #530 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 577 (2024).

About the name Hadassah

In 2025, 529 US girls were named Hadassah, making it the 570th most common girls’ name of the year, down 40 places from #530 in 2024. That is 48 fewer than the 577 girls named Hadassah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #530, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 577. For comparison, it was #705 in 2015 and #4,949 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Hadassah in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 9,312 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,817 babies named Hadassah.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,591 US girls were named Hadassah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 577. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,038 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Hadassah ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #146 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hadassa (1,647 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hadasa, Hadessah and Hadasah are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Hadasa (549), Hadessah (176), Hadasah (159), Hadessa (14), Haddasah (10), Haddassah (6).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Hadassah in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Hadassah by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 25 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New Jersey54#146#372
Pennsylvania35#316#724
New York50#338#527
Maryland16#342#385
Indiana17#399#426
Iowa8#407#550
Massachusetts14#408#428
Arizona15#456#889
Nevada6#459—
Tennessee17#463#1,125
Florida39#475#510
Missouri11#530#777
Michigan14#570#1,172
South Carolina8#578—
North Carolina17#617#932
Minnesota8#621#925
Virginia12#623#799
Ohio14#685#807
Texas42#717#746
Wisconsin6#732#594
Colorado7#737—
Alabama6#752#734
Georgia13#762#843
Washington8#763#724
California31#922#971
Illinois6#1,300#876

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025529#570——
2024577#530——
2023488#612——
2022489#609——
2021418#691——
2020427#670——
2019429#674——
2018390#728——
2017399#720——
2016445#656——
2015405#705——
2014403#700——
2013359#758——
2012321#834——
2011342#791——
2010324#829——
2009295#918——
2008276#971——
2007268#996——
2006150#1,475——
2005142#1,483——
2004102#1,860——
2003102#1,825——
200282#2,087——
200194#1,866——
200081#2,039——
199971#2,141——
199869#2,110——
199761#2,241——
199648#2,600——
199550#2,527——
199437#3,124——
199338#3,066——
199246#2,652——
199145#2,675——
199028#3,745——
198933#3,196——
198829#3,332——
198727#3,362——
198626#3,386——
198544#2,296——
198418#4,213——
198313#5,242——
198213#5,318——
198114#5,056——
198016#4,584——
197915#4,693——
197817#4,131——
197713#5,025——
197613#4,712——
19758#6,722——
19748#6,444——
197313#4,443——
197214#4,158——
19717#6,855——
197011#4,857——
19675#7,147——
19656#6,056——
19615#6,932——
19598#4,775——
19567#5,016——
19556#5,446——
19546#5,372——
19525#5,879——
19506#4,949——
19488#4,006——
19445#4,831——
19376#3,998——
19325#4,678——
19307#3,819——
19246#4,704——
19235#5,268——
19225#5,329——
19207#4,157——
19186#4,523——
19176#4,301——
19165#4,725——
19105#2,565——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).