Hadia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: leader, guide; fem. of Hadi
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɑdiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hadia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 7.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 324K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 317as Hadija
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hadia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 named Hadija, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hadija in TZ Tanzania, KE Kenya and Хадия in KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
leader, guide; fem. of Hadi. See Murshida 3. ,.; Hadi (m.)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hadia 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #4 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 317 | 1 | Hadija | 34 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | listed | Hadia | 50 |
| AF Afghanistan | #503 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Hadia | 8 |
| KE Kenya | #353 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | listed | Hadija | 26 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #781 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 7K | Хадия | 26 |
| US United States | — | 1,027 | 1 in 324K | 1K | Hadia | 148 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Bureau of National Statistics — names tool (monthly birth registrations 2010–2026); the african-muslim-names-zawawi register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hadia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, guide to righteousness; feminine of Hadi
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, gift
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, ) Hadya: weibl. Vom., weibHche
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hadia Bentalebb. 1980DZOlympic fencer
- Hadia Tajikb. 1983NONorwegian politician
- Hadia Hosnyb. 1988EGbadminton player
- Hadia Ben Abdelghanib. 1994FRTunisian association football player
- Hadia Tarek Mohamed Elsayed Sadek GhalebEGEgyptian business woman, fashion designer and influencer
- Hadia RadwanGBresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #12,202 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 34 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #12,202 |
| KE Kenya | African Muslim Names (Zawawi) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hadia?
- A machine transcription gives /hɑdiə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Where does the name Hadia come from?
- leader, guide; fem. of Hadi. See Murshida 3. ,.; Hadi (m.) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What does the name Hadia mean?
- Recorded meaning: leader, guide; fem. of Hadi.
- Is Hadia a male or female name?
- Hadia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Hadia?
- In the etymology graph, Hadiye and Hadiya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hadia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 185 thousand people named Hadija in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hadia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,027 people named Hadia in 2020, about 1 in 324 thousand residents.
- How common is Hadia compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Hadia is the 4th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hadia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hadiaThe 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, “Hadia” — the 4th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.