Hadassah
Where Hadassah comes from
Borrowed from Hebrew הֲדַסָּה (“myrtle”), the Hebrew name of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.
- Hebrew
- 3 syllables
Hadassah through the years
- 1910First appearance#2,398 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
- 2024Peak, #530577 babies named Hadassah, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
- A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
No widely recognized namesakes for Hadassah in Wikidata.
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.