Meaning not yet researched.
Hadley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,254 in 2025. Its best rank was #100 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #100 in 2014; #121 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Hadley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#121 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #100.
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Hadley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,254 girls in 2025. Peak: #100 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 3,015 (2014).
In 2025, 2,254 US girls were named Hadley, making it the 121st most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #115 in 2024. That is 130 fewer than the 2,384 girls named Hadley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #100, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,015. For comparison, it was #103 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hadley in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 6 babies. In all, 48,691 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 25,871 babies named Hadley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 25,440 US girls were named Hadley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,888. In 2025 that was about 1 in 713 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hadley ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #19 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 25 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Hadlee (5,258 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hadlie, Hadli and Hadlei are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hadlie (762), Hadli (180), Hadlei (95), Hadlea (93), Hadly (29), Haddley (11).
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.
No nicknames listed for Hadley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 25 | #19 | #26 |
| Maine | 19 | #40 | #60 |
| North Dakota | 16 | #42 | #25 |
| Kansas | 45 | #51 | #28 |
| Kentucky | 63 | #53 | #41 |
| Vermont | 8 | #53 | #32 |
| West Virginia | 22 | #55 | #76 |
| South Dakota | 15 | #55 | #28 |
| Utah | 61 | #57 | #57 |
| Minnesota | 72 | #60 | #42 |
| New Hampshire | 17 | #63 | #41 |
| Oregon | 42 | #67 | #74 |
| Missouri | 71 | #73 | #42 |
| Tennessee | 90 | #73 | #46 |
| Idaho | 26 | #73 | #34 |
| Arkansas | 33 | #75 | #42 |
| Indiana | 75 | #76 | #69 |
| Michigan | 89 | #77 | #108 |
| Wisconsin | 57 | #79 | #65 |
| Oklahoma | 41 | #80 | #41 |
| Nebraska | 24 | #81 | #21 |
| Pennsylvania | 107 | #86 | #96 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #88 | #50 |
| Iowa | 32 | #92 | #42 |
| Mississippi | 22 | #100 | #84 |
| North Carolina | 100 | #102 | #89 |
| Ohio | 95 | #105 | #77 |
| South Carolina | 39 | #110 | #102 |
| Alabama | 39 | #118 | #53 |
| Alaska | 6 | #119 | #151 |
| Georgia | 78 | #123 | #106 |
| Delaware | 7 | #129 | — |
| Massachusetts | 41 | #134 | #115 |
| Illinois | 72 | #135 | #116 |
| Washington | 51 | #135 | #53 |
| Louisiana | 30 | #140 | #67 |
| Colorado | 40 | #141 | #75 |
| Virginia | 50 | #160 | #152 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #162 | #128 |
| Connecticut | 19 | #168 | #169 |
| New York | 90 | #180 | #274 |
| Texas | 174 | #191 | #146 |
| Maryland | 21 | #244 | #135 |
| Arizona | 28 | #255 | #237 |
| Florida | 71 | #270 | #200 |
| New Jersey | 22 | #366 | #373 |
| California | 85 | #390 | #321 |
| Nevada | 6 | #460 | #180 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,254 | #121 | 12 | #6,938 |
| 2024 | 2,384 | #115 | 21 | #4,759 |
| 2023 | 2,312 | #119 | 31 | #3,655 |
| 2022 | 2,543 | #112 | 24 | #4,346 |
| 2021 | 2,478 | #112 | 25 | #4,151 |
| 2020 | 2,424 | #111 | 31 | #3,520 |
| 2019 | 2,574 | #112 | 32 | #3,518 |
| 2018 | 2,873 | #104 | 37 | #3,126 |
| 2017 | 2,710 | #112 | 35 | #3,266 |
| 2016 | 2,888 | #108 | 33 | #3,385 |
| 2015 | 2,975 | #103 | 37 | #3,105 |
| 2014 | 3,015 | #100 | 45 | #2,680 |
| 2013 | 2,830 | #110 | 32 | #3,361 |
| 2012 | 2,419 | #131 | 49 | #2,532 |
| 2011 | 1,759 | #178 | 48 | #2,559 |
| 2010 | 1,440 | #217 | 40 | #2,925 |
| 2009 | 887 | #365 | 44 | #2,777 |
| 2008 | 769 | #419 | 44 | #2,761 |
| 2007 | 687 | #469 | 41 | #2,886 |
| 2006 | 620 | #494 | 34 | #3,182 |
| 2005 | 450 | #625 | 41 | #2,679 |
| 2004 | 392 | #692 | 52 | #2,219 |
| 2003 | 373 | #702 | 24 | #3,661 |
| 2002 | 262 | #873 | 34 | #2,778 |
| 2001 | 266 | #858 | 33 | #2,832 |
| 2000 | 235 | #921 | 34 | #2,693 |
| 1999 | 198 | #1,031 | 29 | #2,894 |
| 1998 | 212 | #966 | 30 | #2,735 |
| 1997 | 157 | #1,171 | 25 | #3,019 |
| 1996 | 119 | #1,394 | 21 | #3,331 |
| 1995 | 102 | #1,523 | 17 | #3,752 |
| 1994 | 123 | #1,359 | 11 | #5,217 |
| 1993 | 92 | #1,646 | 16 | #3,893 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,788 | 11 | #5,005 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,095 | 15 | #3,887 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,413 | 19 | #3,223 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,313 | 18 | #3,252 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,819 | 8 | #5,389 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,734 | 18 | #2,879 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,530 | 8 | #5,040 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,651 | 9 | #4,457 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,747 | 13 | #3,349 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,686 | 10 | #3,972 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,783 | 17 | #2,752 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,095 | 14 | #3,100 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,022 | 10 | #3,953 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,018 | 14 | #3,064 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,950 | 9 | #3,956 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,127 | 6 | #5,174 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,194 | 11 | #3,315 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,603 | 5 | #5,508 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,271 | 5 | #5,382 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,315 | 5 | #5,265 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,250 | 9 | #3,473 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,327 | 8 | #3,630 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,826 | 9 | #3,159 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,513 | 8 | #3,209 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,294 | 6 | #3,705 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,023 | 12 | #2,378 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,057 | 9 | #2,874 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,663 | — | — |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,595 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,926 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,464 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,468 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,914 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,306 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,366 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,549 |
| 1955 | — | — | 16 | #1,997 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,044 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,603 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,426 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,742 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,654 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,515 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,511 |
| 1947 | — | — | 13 | #2,195 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,075 |
| 1945 | — | — | 16 | #1,725 |
| 1944 | — | — | 12 | #2,118 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,630 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,592 |
| 1941 | — | — | 19 | #1,613 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,123 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,222 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,928 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,257 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,519 |
| 1935 | — | — | 15 | #1,872 |
| 1934 | — | — | 13 | #2,064 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,437 |
| 1932 | — | — | 15 | #1,951 |
| 1931 | — | — | 17 | #1,796 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,720 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,502 |
| 1928 | — | — | 26 | #1,470 |
| 1927 | — | — | 25 | #1,537 |
| 1926 | — | — | 17 | #1,940 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,762 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,724 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,059 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,283 |
| 1921 | — | — | 18 | #1,935 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,785 |
| 1919 | — | — | 18 | #1,839 |
| 1918 | — | — | 18 | #1,856 |
| 1917 | — | — | 16 | #1,932 |
| 1916 | — | — | 14 | #2,089 |
| 1915 | — | — | 14 | #2,016 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,641 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,858 |
| 1912 | — | — | 11 | #1,570 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,228 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,690 |
| 1909 | — | — | 14 | #777 |
| 1908 | — | — | 16 | #668 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,179 |
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).