Fun Facts About the Name Hadleigh
- More than 4 thousand babies named Hadleigh: U.S. records list 4,463 babies given the name Hadleigh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Hadleigh Mean?
Hadleigh is an English habitational name meaning "heath clearing." It comes from Old English hǣþ, "heath" or uncultivated land, and lēah, which meant "wood," "glade," or "clearing" and later came to mean "meadow." Together the elements describe an open clearing or glade on a heath. Hadleigh is a spelling variant of Hadley, which is built from the same two Old English words and is likewise taken from English places; both -ley and -leigh are used to render the second element lēah.
Hadleigh Name History & Origins
Hadleigh is first a place name. Two English towns bear it: Hadleigh in Essex, near the Thames estuary, and Hadleigh in Suffolk, a market town northwest of Ipswich. The ruined Hadleigh Castle stands near the Essex town and was begun in the thirteenth century. The place name is Old English in origin, and its -leigh spelling reflects the Old English lēah.
From those places came the surname Hadleigh, formed in the usual medieval English way from a village name. Hadleigh is also used as a given name, part of the long English practice of turning surnames and place names into first names. In that use it appears mainly in the United States and other English-speaking countries, where it often goes to girls and stands beside Hadley and the many given names spelled with -leigh. Because Hadleigh is chiefly a respelling of an existing English place and family name rather than a distinct creation, its story is largely the story of the place name behind it.
How Popular is the Name Hadleigh?
Hadleigh recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2016. Its best rank was #870 in 2014.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,171 | 198 | 0.0123% |
| 2024 | #1,131 | 213 | 0.0132% |
| 2023 | #1,002 | 253 | 0.0158% |
| 2022 | #968 | 275 | 0.0168% |
| 2021 | #907 | 297 | 0.0181% |
| 2020 | #967 | 263 | 0.0163% |
| 2019 | #997 | 259 | 0.0154% |
| 2018 | #954 | 277 | 0.0163% |
| 2017 | #911 | 294 | 0.0170% |
| 2016 | #883 | 319 | 0.0180% |
| 2015 | #953 | 285 | 0.0160% |
| 2014 | #870 | 314 | 0.0176% |
| 2013 | #1,049 | 236 | 0.0135% |
| 2012 | #1,233 | 197 | 0.0112% |
| 2011 | #1,396 | 164 | 0.0093% |
| 2010 | #1,532 | 146 | 0.0082% |
| 2009 | #2,493 | 76 | 0.0041% |
| 2008 | #3,176 | 53 | 0.0028% |
| 2007 | #3,067 | 57 | 0.0030% |
| 2006 | #3,633 | 43 | 0.0023% |
| 2005 | #3,901 | 37 | 0.0020% |
| 2004 | #3,847 | 37 | 0.0020% |
| 2003 | #3,057 | 49 | 0.0027% |
| 2002 | #5,969 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2001 | #5,429 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2000 | #6,038 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1999 | #7,398 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1998 | #6,165 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1997 | #6,996 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1996 | #10,985 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1995 | #14,219 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #9,084 | 9 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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