Hadi

Hadi or Hady (Arabic: هادي‎‎) is an Arabic/Persian/Turkish/Urdu masculine given name.

Hadi comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root of ه د ي‎ , Is a name derived from the word Hidayah (Arabic: هداية‎, Hidāyah)

Al-Hadi is one of the 99 Names of God in Islam meaning The Guider.

The name is a given first name to millions of Muslim men and boys. It is also used, at times, in honor of Queen Esther, who was forced to change her name from Hadassah in order to conceal her Jewish identity.

Hadi (Hebrew: הֲדִ) also serves as a popular nickname for the Jewish, feminine, given name Hadassah (Hebrew: הֲדַסָה). This derives from Hadass (which means myrtle/ myrtle tree), one of the seven holy species in Judaism.

Given name

Hadi

• Hadi Saei (born 1976), Iranian taekwondo athlete
• Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily (born 1976), Saudi Arabian athlete
• Hadi Elazzi (born 1973), Turkish music producer and manager
• Hadi Aghily (born 1980), Iranian footballer
• Hadi Kazemi (born 1976), Iranian actor, narrator, sculptor, painter and photographer
• Hadi Khorsandi (born 1943), Iranian poet, satirist and editor
• Hadi Norouzi (1985–2015), Iranian footballer
• Hadi Shakouri (born 1982), Iranian footballer
• Hadi Teherani (born 1954), Iranian-German architect and designer living in Germany
• Hadi al-Mahdi (c. 1967 – 2011), Iraqi journalist, radio talk show host, and assassination victim
• Hadi Thayeb (1922–2014), Indonesian diplomat and politician
• Hadi Ghaffari (born 1950), Iranian Hujjat al-Islam
• Hadi Khamenei (born 1947), Iranian reformist politician, mojtahed and linguist
• Hadi al-Modarresi (born 1957), Iranian Ayatollah
• Mohammad Hadi Ghazanfari Khansari (born 1957), Iraqi-born Iranian Ayatollah
• Mohammad Hadi Milani (18921975), Iranian Ayatollah
• Hadi Al-Amiri (born 1954), Iraqi general and politician
• Hadi al-Bahra (born 1959), Syrian politician
• Hadi Al Masri (born 1986), Syrian footballer

Hady

• Hady Amr, U.S. political advisor and Special Envoy
• Hady Habib (born 1998), Lebanese tennis player
• Hady Khashaba (born 1972), Egyptian footballer
• Hady Mirza (born 1980), Singaporean singer
• Hady Pfeiffer (1906-2002), Austrian and German alpine skier
• Hady Shahin (born 1986), Egyptian handball player

Surname

• Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (born 1945), Yemeni President
• Noor Hadi (born 1986), Indonesian footballer
• Saiyid Muhammad Hadi (1863-1939), Indian agricultural technologist
• Seftia Hadi (born 1991), Indonesian footballer

Derived name

• Abdul Hadi, Arabic theophoric name
• Mahdi, Arabic theophoric name
• Huda (given name), Arabic gender-neutral theophoric name

See also

• Arabic name
• Semitic Languages
• Names of God in Islam