Hadden

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Haddon (Derby, Dorset, Northants, Hunts) or Haddon in Shute, Devon; first attested Ailwin de Haddun’ 1159 P

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hadden is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • AUAustralia
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Haddon (Derby, Dorset, Northants, Hunts) or Haddon in Shute, Devon; first attested Ailwin de Haddun’ 1159 P

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hadden is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from the personal name Hadder, a derivative of any of the Germanic compound names formed with had ‘battle’, ‘strife’ as the first element.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • though mainly Scottish, this surname is sometinies used as an Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hEidm ‘descendant of Eidm' (see Hayden).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • variant of Howden

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In dum, first/third-person plural past indicative/subjunctive of hebben

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, inflection of hebben:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1850190019502000Charles Hadden, b. 1854James Cuthbert Hadden, b. 1861Maude Annesley, b. 1871William L. Hadden, b. 1896Briton Hadden, b. 1898Al Hadden, b. 1899Susan Hadden, b. 1945Frank Hadden, b. 1954Maria Hadden, b. 1981Jaylon Hadden, b. 1998

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Hadden
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020106.6K#5,281
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020206K#5,565
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020005.8K#5,473
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—34#2,707
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9#126,713
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—3#142,368
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#261,270
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—2—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#162,034
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20081—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20001—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hadden mean, and where does it come from?
from Haddon (Derby, Dorset, Northants, Hunts) or Haddon in Shute, Devon; first attested Ailwin de Haddun’ 1159 P Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Hadden have the most bearers?
Hadden is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hadden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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