In 2025, 72 US boys were named Haider, making it the 2,063rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 80 places from #2,143 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 69 boys named Haider in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,063, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 72. For comparison, it was #2,497 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Haider in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 6 babies. In all, 1,077 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 386 babies named Haider.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 533 US boys were named Haider; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Haider ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #554 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Haidar, Hadar and Haydar are summarised on this page.