Hadad
surname · Latin script
Meaning: "Hadad" is a theophoric name referring to the ancient Semitic storm god; "Hadar" means "splendor" or "honor" but is widely considered a scribal error for Hadad in this context
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries
/aðað/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Hadad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.3K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 7K
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 Hadad 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)"Hadad" is a theophoric name referring to the ancient Semitic storm god; "Hadar" means "splendor" or "honor" but is widely considered a scribal error for Hadad in this context.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hadad 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Hadad | 68 |
| SY Syria | #280 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Hadad | 21 |
| MA Morocco | #526 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Hadad | 44 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Hadad | 17 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Hadad | 54 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,103 | 1 in 192K | 1.1K | Hadad | 55 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Hadad 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.
In the biblical narrative, Hadad serves as an instrument of divine judgment, raised up by God as an 'adversary' (satan) against Solomon due to the king's idolatry.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Hadad: likely derived from the Semitic storm god Hadad or meaning 'sharpness' or 'fierceness'; Hadar: meaning 'honor', 'ornament', or 'splendor'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Derived from the name of the Semitic storm god, Hadad; meaning 'thunder' or 'sharpness'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
As a son of Ishmael, he represents one of the twelve princes promised by God to Abraham regarding Ishmael's lineage.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name is theophoric, referring to Hadad, the ancient Semitic storm-god.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
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)- Astrid Hadadb. 1956MXMexican actress
- Joseph Hadadb. 1959ILIsraeli chef
- JESÚS EL SANTIb. 1961ARnot in their usual nameciudad de México / México
- Tal Hadadb. 1971ILIsraeli basketball player (born 1971)
- Aviv Hadadb. 1984ILIsraeli footballer
- Ali Al Hadadb. 1987AEEmirati ice hockey player
- Nadine Hadadb. 1991DEjournalist
- Anissa Hadadb. 1991IDIndonesian actress
- Ben Hadadb. 2002actor
- Yaron HadadILEntrepreneur from the United States
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)Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,476 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Hadad mean, and where does it come from?
- "Hadad" is a theophoric name referring to the ancient Semitic storm god; "Hadar" means "splendor" or "honor" but is widely considered a scribal error for Hadad in this context. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Hadad?
- In Spanish /aðað/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hadad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Hadad in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hadad.
- How common is the name Hadad?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,103 people named Hadad, about 1 in 192 thousand residents.
- How common is Hadad compared with other names?
- In Syria, Hadad is the 280th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hadad?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hadadThe 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, “Hadad” — the 280th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.