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Summary
- No one named Hadley appears in the Bible, and the name has no Hebrew form or meaning.
- Hadley comes from English place names built from Old English hǣth, “heath, heather,” and lēah, “woodland, clearing.”
- The King James Version uses “heath,” the same Old English word, for a desert shrub in Jeremiah 17:6 and 48:6.
- In the United States Hadley was a boys’ name in the top 1,000 only in 1908 and 1909; as a girls’ name it entered the top 1,000 in 1998 and reached 100th in 2014.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Behind the Name, “Hadley,” with rankings for the United States (Social Security Administration data) and England and Wales. https://www.behindthename.com/name/hadley
- Behind the Name, surname “Hadley.” https://surnames.behindthename.com/name/hadley
- Online Etymology Dictionary, “heath.” https://www.etymonline.com/word/heath
- Strong’s Hebrew 6176, with the Brown-Driver-Briggs entry, Bible Hub. https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6176.htm
- Scripture quotations: Jeremiah 17:6–8 and 48:6, King James Version. The English Standard Version and New International Version renderings of Jeremiah 17:6 and 48:6 were compared.
