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All over the world, חדאד (Haddad , Hadad , חדאד ) is quite a common mostly male, but infrequently female forename. The forename חדאד is habitual in Algeria, where it is quite a rare largely masculine, but uncommonly feminine name, Lebanon, where it is quite a rare epicene name, and Tunisia. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Algeria, Indonesia, and Morocco. More prevalently, חדאד is the last name as well as the forename.
חדאד is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Hadad ben Bedad , the biblical character, Book of Genesis; Hadad the Edomite , the member of the royal house of Edom, who escaped the massacre under Joab and fled to Egypt, 1 Kings and Hadad , the son of Ishmael, Genesis 25.