Hadas
Hebrew in origin, from the word for the myrtle tree. In Poland it stays rare: only about 100 women carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Hadas Pronunciation
Hadas is pronounced KHAH-dahs (/ˈxadas/).
What Hadas means
Where Hadas comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hadas comes from Hebrew, where the word names the myrtle tree. In Polish that is mirt. The shrub grows across the Mediterranean, evergreen and fragrant, and Jewish tradition gave it a fixed ritual place.
During Sukkot the myrtle branch, hadas, is one of the four species held together in prayer. The same Hebrew word stands behind Hadassah, the name the Book of Esther gives its heroine. The plant became a person, and that person entered scripture.
Hadas stays close to its root. It has no Polish diminutive, no softened ending, no cross-gender twin. On a school register in Poland the name reads as Hebrew at once.
The myrtle keeps its leaves through winter. A girl named Hadas carries the plain Hebrew word for that tree.
How many people are named Hadas
1 in 191049 women in Poland is named Hadas. 118 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3109 among female names.
Hadas as a middle name
Hadas is a first name for 118 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2980th, between Goreta (7) and Hadassa (7).
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#2978 Giulietta7
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#2979 Goreta7
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#2980 Hadas7
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#2981 Hadassa7
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#2982 Hala7