Hades
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ades/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hades is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 382K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
- BRBrazil1 in 8.8M
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 382K (inferred from the name graph)
131 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hades (god of the underworld)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hades is read(measured from records)
Hades is one spelling over 7 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hades in Spanish.
- French15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hades in French.
- English12%
Greek god of the Underworld; abode
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
of dead Hell
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Vietnamese8.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hades in Vietnamese.
- Hindi8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hades in Hindi.
- Portuguese7.1%
Hades (god of the underworld)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Catalan6.3%
Hades (god)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Hades, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hades 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 131 | 1 in 382K | 131 | — | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 24 | 1 in 8.8M | 24 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 43 | Hades | 39 |
| DE Germany | — | — | 1 | Hades | 16 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | — | — | Hades | 10 |
| AT Austria | — | — | — | Hades | 6 |
131 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Hades is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, past passive indicative of hafva
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.
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 17 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 131 | #12,732 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 91 | #7,916 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 23 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #109,849 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 12 | — |
Reference works 1
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
- Where does the name Hades come from?
- Hades (god of the underworld) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hades?
- A machine transcription gives /ades/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Hades a male or female name?
- Hades is a male 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 does the name Hades mean?
- In English, The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
- In which country does Hades have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 131 people named Hades, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hades most common?
- Hades is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 382 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hades?
- In Spain, the national register counted 131 people named Hades, about 1 in 382 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hades?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hadesThe 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, “Hades”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.