Meaning not yet researched.
Hailee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 163 in 2025. Its best rank was #360 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #360 in 2003; #1,355 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hailee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,355 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #360.
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Hailee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 163 girls in 2025. Peak: #360 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 850 (2003).
In 2025, 163 US girls were named Hailee, making it the 1,355th most common girls’ name of the year, down 70 places from #1,285 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 180 girls named Hailee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #360, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 850. For comparison, it was #828 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hailee in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 8 babies. In all, 16,490 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 7,433 babies named Hailee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,363 US girls were named Hailee; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 312. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,861 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hailee ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #657 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hailey (181,710 babies since 1880), Hailie (6,565 babies since 1880), Haley (160,347 babies since 1880) and Hayley (51,449 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 Hailee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 7 | #657 | #597 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #737 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #738 | #499 |
| Maryland | 5 | #886 | #661 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,018 | #1,002 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,151 | #725 |
| California | 20 | #1,252 | #858 |
| New York | 11 | #1,264 | #1,318 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,284 | #742 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,301 | #1,524 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,738 | #800 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 163 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 2024 | 180 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 2022 | 222 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 2020 | 220 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 2019 | 275 | #958 | — | — |
| 2018 | 309 | #876 | — | — |
| 2017 | 312 | #877 | — | — |
| 2016 | 293 | #937 | — | — |
| 2015 | 339 | #828 | — | — |
| 2014 | 365 | #766 | — | — |
| 2013 | 382 | #723 | — | — |
| 2012 | 422 | #670 | — | — |
| 2011 | 522 | #560 | — | — |
| 2010 | 572 | #521 | — | — |
| 2009 | 590 | #512 | — | — |
| 2008 | 691 | #458 | — | — |
| 2007 | 728 | #442 | — | — |
| 2006 | 689 | #458 | — | — |
| 2005 | 779 | #404 | — | — |
| 2004 | 790 | #393 | 6 | #10,431 |
| 2003 | 850 | #360 | — | — |
| 2002 | 801 | #369 | — | — |
| 2001 | 758 | #385 | — | — |
| 2000 | 751 | #384 | — | — |
| 1999 | 567 | #466 | — | — |
| 1998 | 516 | #491 | — | — |
| 1997 | 479 | #508 | — | — |
| 1996 | 508 | #478 | — | — |
| 1995 | 396 | #580 | — | — |
| 1994 | 343 | #637 | — | — |
| 1993 | 350 | #640 | — | — |
| 1992 | 255 | #792 | — | — |
| 1991 | 184 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1990 | 111 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1989 | 78 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1988 | 93 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,757 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,805 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,067 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,421 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,645 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,545 | — | — |
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).