Fun Facts About the Name Hadli
- 180 babies named Hadli: U.S. records list 180 babies given the name Hadli from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Hadli Mean?
Hadli is a modern respelling of the English name Hadley, also spelled Hadlee. Hadley began as an English surname taken from a place name, and that place name comes from Old English hæþ, meaning "heath" or untilled land, and lēah, meaning "woodland clearing" or "meadow." Put together, the literal sense is "heath clearing" or "clearing on the heath." A common customary gloss is "heather meadow," which treats the heath as the heather plant that grows on it. Hadli has no separate etymology of its own; its meaning is the meaning of the surname it is based on.
Hadli Name History & Origins
Hadley is first a surname, derived from one or more English places of that name. Several villages and parishes in England are called Hadley, including one in Gloucestershire, Monken Hadley in Hertfordshire, and Hadley in Shropshire, and each would have given local families a surname meaning "the person from Hadley." The similar-looking Hadleigh, found in Essex and Suffolk, is generally explained from the same Old English elements, though it is a separate place name and is not simply another spelling of Hadley.
As a personal name, Hadley was drawn from the surname and used occasionally for boys in the English-speaking world before it became more common as a girl's name. The spelling Hadli belongs to a group of recent phonetic variants, along with Hadlee and Hadleigh, that simplify or reshape the ending. These respellings appear in the same English-speaking countries where Hadley is used, and they share its origin rather than developing independently.
How Popular is the Name Hadli?
Hadli has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2015. Its best rank was #6,108 in 2015.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | #9,209 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2022 | #16,168 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2021 | #7,765 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #12,614 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2019 | #11,740 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #8,304 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2017 | #13,202 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #8,145 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2015 | #6,108 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2014 | #8,209 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2013 | #9,223 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #10,704 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2011 | #13,862 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2010 | #13,995 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2009 | #8,602 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2007 | #18,615 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2006 | #10,152 | 11 | 0.0006% |
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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How the Name Hadli Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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