Hàdi
surname · Latin script
Hàdi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic hadi ‘leader’, ‘guide’. AlHddi ‘the Guide’ is one of the names of Allah. It is also a title of 'Ali ibn Muhammad Naqi, tenth imam of the Shiites (died 868).
- NONorway1 in 18K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 36K
- FIFinland1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
8,067 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hadi in US United States, ES Spain, BE Belgium.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a personal name based on Arabic hadi ‘leader’, ‘guide’. AlHddi ‘the Guide’ is one of the names of Allah. It is also a title of 'Ali ibn Muhammad Naqi, tenth imam of the Shiites (died 868).
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- African Muslim Names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hàdi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
8,067 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hàdi mean, and where does it come from?
- from a personal name based on Arabic hadi ‘leader’, ‘guide’. AlHddi ‘the Guide’ is one of the names of Allah. It is also a title of 'Ali ibn Muhammad Naqi, tenth imam of the Shiites (died 868). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and African Muslim Names and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Hàdi have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 8.1 thousand people named Hàdi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hàdi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hàdi is densest in Norway — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hàdi?
- In India, the national register counted 8,067 people named Hàdi, about 1 in 164 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A0diThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hàdi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.