Meaning not yet researched.
Haile: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,312 in 1935.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,312 in 1935; #12,688 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Haile in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,688 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1935, at #2,312.
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Haile: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,312 in 1935 · most boys in one year: 11 (2003).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Haile, making it the 12,688th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #2,312, reached in 1935. The most boys given the name in a single year was 11, in 2003. For comparison, it was #11,173 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Haile in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,430, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #8,152 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Haile in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 11 babies. In all, 1,073 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 509 babies named Haile.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29 US boys were named Haile; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 7. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Hal (16,796 babies since 1880), Halle (16,657 babies since 1880) and Hayle (1,526 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Haile in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #12,688 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,148 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,048 | 7 | #10,100 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,113 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,052 | 5 | #12,737 |
| 2019 | — | — | 6 | #11,255 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,976 | 6 | #11,248 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,180 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,152 | 6 | #11,173 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,645 | 7 | #10,012 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,909 | 7 | #10,033 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,195 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,228 | 7 | #9,999 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,686 | 5 | #12,931 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,610 | 8 | #9,287 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,213 | — | — |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,077 | 6 | #11,418 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,772 | 6 | #10,430 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,809 | 11 | #6,409 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,430 | 6 | #9,812 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,108 | 8 | #7,805 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,577 | 5 | #10,998 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,061 | 8 | #7,406 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,675 | 6 | #8,875 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,565 | — | — |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,665 | 5 | #9,531 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,814 | 5 | #9,356 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,929 | 7 | #7,240 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,387 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,198 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,758 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,733 | 5 | #8,601 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,700 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,852 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,717 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,620 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,972 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,218 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,932 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,335 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,544 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,438 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,996 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,312 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).