Hadia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Hadija in TZ Tanzania, KE Kenya, PH Philippines and 3 more, Хадия in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more and Khadiya in IN India.

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●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hadia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name4.6K records spelled Hadia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Hädiá, Hãdîã

• Spanish given name1.4K records spelled Hadia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Hádia

• Bangla given name140 records spelled Hadia6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States, Pakistan

  Also written Hadiya, হাদিয়া, হাদিযা

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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 name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, gift

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In German, ) Hadya: weibl. Vom., weibHche

  as a name·DUDEN 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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 80 years between 1920–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 308 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hadia?

We estimate roughly 6.3 thousand people bear Hadia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Hadia have the most bearers?

Hadia is most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is most often spelled hadija.

How common is Hadia compared with other names?

In Tanzania, Hadia is the 15th most common given name of 40,746 given names recorded there.

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 does the name Hadia mean?

Recorded meaning: leader, guide; fem. of Hadi.