Girl · Old English
Hadley
Say it: HAD-lee
Meaning
From an English surname taken from place names, from Old English hæþ 'heather' and leah 'clearing'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A surname name that rose as an American girls' name in the 2010s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 36,567 babies given this name since 1906
- At its height in 2018, about 1 in 591 girls
- 2,444 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Hadlee
Famous bearers
- Hadley Richardson, first wife of Ernest Hemingway
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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