girls:
8.2k births since 1910
#1797 (69th percentile)
overall:
8.2k births since 1910
#2985 (61st percentile)
The name Hadassah is the #2,985 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,187 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 61.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,797 (68.6% percentile) for all time with 8,187 births since 1910.
Hadassah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (first recorded for girls in 1910). Birth data for Hadassah is available in 76 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Hadassah reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 45.7% percentile (ranked #521) with 271 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 274 births per million (ranked 45.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1990, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Hadassah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #520 (45.1% percentile) with 274 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hadassah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Hadassah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.1% confident that Hadassah is pronounced as huh-DA-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is huh-DUH-suh, at 17.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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