Hadasa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ha-DASS-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,553 for girls
Hadasa is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “myrtle”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).
What does Hadasa mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Hadassah
“myrtle”
The Hebrew name of Queen Esther in the Bible, from the word for myrtle.
Meaning borrowed from Hadassah. More on Wiktionary.
Is Hadasa a girl's or a boy's name?
Hadasa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hadasa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 75% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Hadasa, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2021, with 7 girls.
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were given Hadasa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #977, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Hadassah 29
- Hadasa 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Hadasa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
How popular is Hadasa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,553among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22about 1 in 73,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 13% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Hadasa, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Hadasa in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 551 girls in the US were given Hadasa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #547, up from #5,553 for this spelling alone.
- Hadassah 529
- Hadasa 22
Hadasa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,553 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,018 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,569 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,003 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,249 |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,595 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,001 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,112 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,356 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,676 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,140 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,088 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Names like Hadasa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Hiba Abeeha Halima Hawa Rahma Aaliyah Nusaybah Huda Amira Zainab
Other spellings of Hadasa
Names related to Hadasa
More Hebrew names
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hadasa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hadasa, updated 20 October 2026.