Hadleigh

Hadleigh: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“heather clearing”
Origin
Old English
Say it
HAD-lee · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls

Hadleigh comes from an English place name from Old English elements meaning heather and clearing or meadow. This spelling is a modern given-name form related to Hadley.

How popular is Hadleigh?

202464.0 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 Hadleigh in 2024213

2024 rank#1,136 girls

Peak year2021

Total US babies since 18804,265

Hadleigh has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Hadleigh

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Audreynoble strength · Old English
  • Ashleyash tree clearing · Old English
  • Oakleyoak clearing · Old English
  • Hadleyheather field · Old English
  • Blakelydark wood or clearing · Old English
  • KimberlyCyneburg's meadow · Old English
  • Presleypriest's meadow · Old English
  • Marleypleasant wood · Old English

Hadleigh questions

What does the name Hadleigh mean?

Hadleigh means "heather clearing". It comes from Old English. Hadleigh comes from an English place name from Old English elements meaning heather and clearing or meadow. This spelling is a modern given-name form related to Hadley.

Is Hadleigh a boy or girl name?

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

How popular is Hadleigh?

213 US babies were named Hadleigh in 2024. Its peak year was 2021.

How do you pronounce Hadleigh?

Hadleigh is usually pronounced HAD-lee.

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.