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Hadi

Hadi: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“guide, leader to the right path”
Origin
Arabic
Say it
HAH-dee · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys

From Arabic Hadi, from a root meaning to guide. Also used in Persian and Turkish, and appears in Islamic devotional usage as al-Hadi, 'the Guide'.

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How popular is Hadi?

202434.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Hadi in 2024112

2024 rank#1,608 boys

Peak year2024

Total US babies since 18802,399

Hadi has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Hadi

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Amircommander, prince · Arabic
  • Muhammadpraised · Arabic
  • Zaynbeauty, grace · Arabic
  • Omarflourishing, long-lived · Arabic
  • Cairovictorious · Arabic
  • Ibrahimfather of multitudes · Arabic
  • Khalilfriend, beloved · Arabic
  • Malikking · Arabic

Hadi questions

What does the name Hadi mean?

Hadi means "guide, leader to the right path". It comes from Arabic. From Arabic Hadi, from a root meaning to guide. Also used in Persian and Turkish, and appears in Islamic devotional usage as al-Hadi, 'the Guide'.

Is Hadi a boy or girl name?

Hadi is mainly a boy's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Hadi?

112 US babies were named Hadi in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.

How do you pronounce Hadi?

Hadi is usually pronounced HAH-dee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.