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Hadeel

Gender
Girl
Say it
ha-DEEL
Origin
Arabic
UK rank, 2025
#4,276 for girls
US rank, 2025
#5,916 for girls

Hadeel is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “cooing of doves”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).

What does Hadeel mean?

Arabic: Arabic hadil

“cooing of doves”

Arabic hadil is the soft cooing sound made by doves and pigeons.

Is Hadeel a girl's or a boy's name?

Hadeel is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Hadeel in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,276among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 56,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 280% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Hadeel, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 11 girls.

Half of all the girls named Hadeel in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.

1997Busiest: 11 in 20072025
Hadeel in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#4,276
20246#3,758
20238#3,098
20225#4,168
20214#4,864
20204#4,744
20191#7,346
20180–
20170–
20165#4,290
20150–
20147#3,321
20131#7,690
20123#6,108
20110–
20103#5,938
20095#4,141
20087#3,203
200711#2,198
20063#5,259
20056#3,133
20044#3,916
20034#3,768
20020–
20013#4,156
20000–
19998#2,089
19980–
19973#3,991

How popular is Hadeel in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,916among girls
Babies in 2025
20about 1 in 80,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 7% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Hadeel, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more girls named Hadeel than any year since 2017.

Half of all the girls named Hadeel in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

1984Busiest: 34 in 20172025
Hadeel in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202520#5,916
202413#7,962
202312#8,481
202211#9,050
202114#7,625
202011#8,948
201912#8,592
201819#6,244
201734#4,219
201623#5,620
201523#5,651
201421#5,991
201325#5,315
201217#7,140
201129#4,806
201024#5,600
200920#6,541
200823#5,952
200728#5,095
200627#5,085
200528#4,700
200429#4,597
200333#4,030
200220#5,669
200133#3,860
200026#4,522
199923#4,713
199831#3,727
199726#4,122
199620#4,878
199522#4,513
199414#6,313
199319#4,992
199212#7,060
199117#5,393
19905#12,952
19896#10,841
19880–
19870–
19865#10,907
19855#10,672
19846#9,139

Names like Hadeel

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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, “Hadeel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hadeel, updated 20 October 2026.