Hadley

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Hadley: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #418, and it stood at #664 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#418highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#5545
2009	#4564
2010	#4688
2011	#2432
2012	#1649
2013	#1639
2014	#1272
2015	#1240
2016	#1416
2017	#1184
2018	#936
2019	#1119
2020	#928
2021	#1128
2022	#1245
2023	#1371
2024	#934

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #934 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 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
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #934 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Hadley appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,316 births with the name.

Hadley 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.

Hadley'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	#1235 (1996)	#433 (2018)	#664 (2024)	29 of 29	1,316 (1996–2024)	97 (2018)
England and Wales · Girls	#5545 (2008)	#928 (2020)	#934 (2024)	17 of 17	386 (2008–2024)	39 (2018)

Hadley 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 Hadley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	70	4 of 10	18
2000s	269	10 of 10	27
2010s	641	10 of 10	64
2020sbusiest	336	5 of 10	67

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 67 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 30, from 53 to 83.

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

Hadley appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #418 in Northern Ireland in 2022.

Hadley'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	#934	38	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#664	56	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1371	23	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#614	58	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1245	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#592	63	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#461	89	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#928	38	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#535	70	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1119	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#476	84	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#936	39	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#433	97	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#522	75	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#486	83	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1240	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#646	53	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#605	58	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1639	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#647	52	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#671	50	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#681	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#721	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#923	29	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#894	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#820	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#653	42	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#807	29	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#841	25	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#746	28	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#781	24	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#910	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#906	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#780	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#694	23	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #418, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 97 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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 4 registrars, 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.

Calla · #418, 27y
Fox · #418, 27y
Margaux · #418, 29y
Siena · #415, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Annie-Rose · #418, 24y
Calla · #418, 27y
Fox · #418, 27y
Isabela · #418, 28y

Hadley was ranked #418 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Hadley 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 Hadley without appearing here.

Hadley moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1272 and #4684.
Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #5545 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2432 and #5785.
Kari Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4688 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2432 and #5785.
Kristy Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2432 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Hadley

Cooper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #653 and #677 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #820 and #509.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #653 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #820 and #538.
Ollie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #780 and #924 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #906 and #655.
Tadhg Compare
In 2022 they stood at #592 and #600 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #614 and #419.

Moved the opposite way to Hadley

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadley went from #1235 to #664 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadley went from #1235 to #664 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadley went from #1235 to #664 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadley went from #1235 to #664 while Alexander went from #14 to #36.

Moved the same way as Hadley

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadley went from #1235 to #664 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadley went from #1235 to #664 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadley went from #1235 to #664 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hadley went from #1235 to #664 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #418 in Northern Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hadley

Hadley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hadley across 2 official records

Hadley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Hadley appears in

Popularity data

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Hadley across 2 official records

Hadley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Hadley appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Hadley

Hadley and the names beside it

Hadley moved ahead of

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