Primarily a girl's name · 96% girls
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Hadley yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Hadley is off 21% from a 2014 peak that set both its records at once, 3,015 births and rank 100, and now records 2,380 at rank 114. Recorded from 1964, 46,412 births in total, no listed origin and no bearers at all. Hadley Richardson, the first wife of Ernest Hemingway, is the association most often cited for this name and is not in the file. Structurally it is a surname with a -ley ending, which places it with Kinsley and Everly, and all three have now either peaked or flattened. That cohort rose together through the 2010s and appears to be topping out together, which is what usually happens to names carried by a suffix rather than a meaning.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 7 | #5,663 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,057 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,023 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,294 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,514 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,826 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,327 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,250 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,315 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,272 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,603 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,194 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,127 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,951 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,546 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,018 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,022 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,095 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,783 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,686 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,747 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,651 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,530 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,734 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,819 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,313 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,413 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,095 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,788 |
| 1993 | 92 | #1,646 |
| 1994 | 123 | #1,359 |
| 1995 | 102 | #1,523 |
| 1996 | 119 | #1,395 |
| 1997 | 157 | #1,171 |
| 1998 | 212 | #966 |
| 1999 | 198 | #1,031 |
| 2000 | 235 | #921 |
| 2001 | 266 | #858 |
| 2002 | 262 | #873 |
| 2003 | 373 | #702 |
| 2004 | 392 | #692 |
| 2005 | 450 | #625 |
| 2006 | 620 | #494 |
| 2007 | 687 | #469 |
| 2008 | 769 | #419 |
| 2009 | 887 | #365 |
| 2010 | 1,439 | #218 |
| 2011 | 1,759 | #178 |
| 2012 | 2,419 | #130 |
| 2013 | 2,830 | #110 |
| 2014 | 3,015 | #100 |
| 2015 | 2,975 | #103 |
| 2016 | 2,888 | #108 |
| 2017 | 2,709 | #112 |
| 2018 | 2,873 | #104 |
| 2019 | 2,572 | #112 |
| 2020 | 2,424 | #111 |
| 2021 | 2,477 | #112 |
| 2022 | 2,540 | #112 |
| 2023 | 2,311 | #119 |
| 2024 | 2,380 | #114 |
