Hadasa
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hadasa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Israel. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Hebrew hădassāh 'myrtle'.
- ILIsrael1 in 1.3K◐
- BRBrazil1 in 9.1K
- NLNetherlands1 in 32K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈29K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 198 ●
- 1 in 9.1K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
72K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hadassa in BR Brazil, NL Netherlands, MX Mexico and 6 more, הדסה in IL Israel, PL Poland, GB United Kingdom and 6 more and Hadassah in US United States, CA Canada, NG Nigeria and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
- Hebrewhădassāh●
- Old Frenchmyrte◐via 'myrtle'
- Latinmyrtus◐via 'myrtle'
- Ancient Greekμύρτοςmúrtos“myrtle”◐via 'myrtle'
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
from Hebrew hădassāh 'myrtle'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #231 | 50,718 | 51K rec. | — | 34 | הדסה | 28 |
| BR Brazil | — | 23,160△ | 3.3K rec. | 1 in 9.1K | 23K | Hadassa | 84 |
| US United States | — | 5,456 | 9.6K rec. | 1 in 61K | 5.5K | Hadassah | 198 |
| MX Mexico | — | 915 | 602 rec. | — | 1 | Hadassa | 35 |
| AR Argentina | — | 782 | 522 rec. | — | 16 | Hadasa | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 723 | 529 rec. | — | listed | הדסה | 44 |
| CA Canada | — | 714 | 157 rec. | — | 10 | Hadassah | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 532△ | 195 rec. | 1 in 32K | 532 | Hadassa | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 406 | 500 rec. | — | — | Hadassah | 23 |
| DE Germany | — | 391 | 361 rec. | — | 1 | הדסה | 27 |
| IN India | — | 339 | 399 rec. | — | 12 | הדסה | 14 |
| PH Philippines | — | 320 | 182 rec. | — | — | Hadassah | 19 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese4.5K54%
- Spanish1.6K19%
- English1.2K15%
- Hebrew2203%
- German1282%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 4,524 | 54% |
| Spanish | 1,574 | 19% |
| English | 1,226 | 15% |
| Hebrew | 220 | 3% |
| German | 128 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 18 |
| 2008 | 28 |
| 2009 | 31 |
| 2010 | 24 |
| 2011 | 25 |
| 2012 | 27 |
| 2013 | 22 |
| 2014 | 37 |
| 2015 | 43 |
| 2016 | 34 |
| 2017 | 30 |
| 2018 | 26 |
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2021 | 22 |
| 2022 | 17 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 22 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1997–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hadasa Rubinb. 1912PLPolish poet
- Hadassah Rosensaftb. 1912PLnot in their usual namePolish-born Holocaust survivor and Jewish activist (1912-1997)
- Hadassa Ben-Ittob. 1926ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli jurist, author (1926-2018)
- Hadasa Baub. 1947ILIsraeli painter
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●
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 758 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 753 | #10,026 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 477 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 432 | #22,738 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 387 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 281 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 151 | #46,120 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 95 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 90 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 87 | #38,696 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 67 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 54 | #26,091 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 168 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hadasa?
- We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Hadasa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hadasa have the most bearers?
- Hadasa is most frequently recorded in Israel, where it is most often spelled הדסה.
- How common is Hadasa compared with other names?
- In Israel, Hadasa is the 231st most common given name of 97,862 given names recorded there.
- Is Hadasa a male or female name?
- Hadasa 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 does the name Hadasa mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Hebrew hădassāh 'myrtle'
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Hadasa” — the 231st most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.