Genesis 25:15 names him as one of the 12 sons of Yishma-El (cf 1 Chronicles 1:30).
The name means "sharp" or "swift".
Not to be confused with Hadad (first letter Hey rather than Chet), who appears in Genesis 36:35, where we are told that "Chusham died, and Chadad ben Bedad, who smote Midyan in the field of Mo-Av, succeeded him; and the name of his city was Avit."
But, on the other hand, maybe he should be confused, because there is also a Ba'al Chadad, who may actually be a Ba'al Hadad, who was one of the important deities in both Kena'an and Babylonia - rather than me giving you the information, New World Encyclopedia has a very thorough page, so click here. The general consensus among scholars (see here for a good example) is that Chadad and Hadad should be regarded as separate.
But then there is another Hadad (הדד), in 1 Kings 11:19 and elsewhere, with whom Chadad should not be confused, although it is possible that he should be confused with Chadar (חדר), on the principle (the query belongs to Gesenius) that this latter is a spelling error (what, in a book written by the hand of YHVH?). If you follow the links on both the names, you will discover complete confusion everywhere, a total mixing-up of Chadads with Hadads and Chadars with Hadars, a consequence of the Christian translators working from Latin or Greek or earlier English translations, and failing to check the original Yehudit, which is itself full of scribal errors. Were the names more significant, I would take you through the errors one by one; but they aren't, so I shan't.
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