Given name
Hadya
“one who leads or guides”
Hadya is used as a feminine counterpart of Hadi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who leads or guides.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
How it developed
Hadya is used as a feminine counterpart of Hadi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hadya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 0 boys · 75 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,724 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,724 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2018.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hadya’s family of names
Hadya is a feminine form of Hadi. Hadya has a related form in Hadiya. Hadya has a related form in Hadiyah.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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