God of Thunder/Lightning in Assyrian/Babylonian and Aramaic mythology. A Semitic name, used primarily today by members of the Assyrian ethnic minority in the middle east. A derivative of this name is Adad.
Hadad is an Assyrio-Aramaic derivative of ADAD. Kings of Assyria bore this name such as Shamshi-Adad and Adad-Nirari.Aramean kings such as Hadadezzar used the Hadad variety.Name now used by Assyrian and Syriac Christian ethnic minorities.