Hadleigh

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Hadleigh: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Hadleigh: Recorded since 1996, it reached #1,152 in 2019, and it stood at #2,411 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1152highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2012–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#4838
2016	#5785
2017	#3583
2018	#3985
2019	#5591
2020	#4535
2021	#3961
2022	#2488
2023	#3598
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 21 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1152 among boys in England and Wales, in 2019 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Hadleigh appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 159 births with the name.

Hadleigh across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Hadleigh's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#1152 (2019)	#2921 (2024)	21 of 29	159 (1996–2024)	23 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#4838 (2012)	#2411 (2024)	#2411 (2024)	10 of 13	57 (2012–2024)	11 (2024)

Hadleigh by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Hadleigh in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	3 of 10	5
2000s	21	5 of 10	4
2010s	73	8 of 10	9
2020sbusiest	51	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Hadleigh appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1152 in England and Wales in 2019.

Hadleigh's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1879	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1230	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1152	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,152, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 23 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jesse-James · #1152, 19y
Khalifa · #1152, 23y
Riyaan · #1152, 19y
Lexy · #1153, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Khalifa · #1152, 23y
Willis · #1152, 28y
Dior · #1153, 27y
Mariama · #1153, 29y

Hadleigh and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Hadleigh without appearing here.

Hadleigh moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4023 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1455 and #4749.
Kari Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5591 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2488 and #5669.

Moved ahead of Hadleigh

Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3583 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3985 and #1711.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1879 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #1461.
Harper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1949 and #2587 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #2070.
Gustav Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1879 and #2320 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #2325.

Moved the opposite way to Hadleigh

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadleigh went from #1761 to #2921 while Cooper went from #2022 to #139.
Abigail Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hadleigh went from #4838 to #2411 while Abigail went from #44 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hadleigh went from #4838 to #2411 while Aimee went from #153 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hadleigh went from #4838 to #2411 while Aisling went from #1150 to #2000.

Moved the same way as Hadleigh

Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadleigh went from #1761 to #3523 and Kelly from #1454 to #3523.
Ada Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hadleigh went from #4838 to #2411 and Ada from #384 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hadleigh went from #4838 to #2411 and Alma from #749 to #234.
Aria Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hadleigh went from #4838 to #2411 and Aria from #294 to #35.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1152 in England and Wales in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hadleigh

Hadleigh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hadleigh across 2 official records

Hadleigh by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Hadleigh appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Hadleigh and the names beside it

Hadleigh moved ahead of

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Hadleigh at a glance

Hadleigh across 2 official records

Hadleigh by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Hadleigh appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Hadleigh and the names beside it

Hadleigh moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hadleigh

Moved the opposite way to Hadleigh

Moved the same way as Hadleigh