Haider

What Haider means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Haider yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #306 vs #2,056 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Haider?

US: Rising: up from #2486 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #420 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 72 boys got the name (#2056 that year). First in the US records in 1985.

How common

• About 1 in 23,723 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,825 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NJ (0.33 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.22 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.14 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Haider is #2056 in the US and #306 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Haider were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Haidar26 US · 13 E&W
• Haydar13 US · 5 E&W
• Hyder10 US · 3 E&W
• Hayder0 US · 6 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Haider

Boys

• Callahan#227Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,804 in 2015, #227 in 2025
• Bodhi#265Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 5 babies
• Koa#269Hawaiian, meaning “warrior, courage; koa tree”^*
• Zayn#251“beauty”^*
• Kaiden#237Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1992, with 12 babies
• River#111From the word “river”^*

For a sister

• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Juniper#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #427 in 2015, #100 in 2025
• Aspen#266Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Aspen in 2025 were girls
• Josie#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #250 in 2015, #82 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Haider’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.