Meaning not yet researched.
Hailey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,556 in 2025. Its best rank was #19 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #19 in 2010; #104 in 2025. About 99.8% of babies named Hailey in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#104 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #19.
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Hailey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,556 girls in 2025. Peak: #19 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 8,798 (2003).
In 2025, 2,556 US girls were named Hailey, making it the 104th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #100 in 2024. That is 71 fewer than the 2,627 girls named Hailey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #19, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 8,798, in 2003. For comparison, it was #64 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hailey in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 7 babies. In all, 181,710 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 82,128 babies named Hailey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 32,003 US girls were named Hailey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,947. In 2025 that was about 1 in 629 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hailey ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #49 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 11 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Hayley (51,449 babies since 1880), Hailee (16,490 babies since 1880), Haley (160,347 babies since 1880) and Haylee (30,233 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Haili, Haylea and Haylei are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Haylee and Hayley.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Haili (834), Haylea (818), Haylei (790), Hally (726), Hailley (455), Haeley (397), Halei (375), Hailea (328), Hailei (288), Haliey (255), Halea (241), Haely (226), and more.
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.
Hailey is listed as a nickname for Haylee, Hayley.
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 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 253 | #49 | #34 |
| New Jersey | 125 | #54 | #52 |
| Massachusetts | 93 | #54 | #65 |
| Connecticut | 38 | #65 | #47 |
| Pennsylvania | 129 | #68 | #56 |
| California | 363 | #76 | #55 |
| Maryland | 52 | #77 | #59 |
| Virginia | 80 | #83 | #84 |
| Delaware | 9 | #85 | #102 |
| New Mexico | 14 | #97 | #21 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #100 | #59 |
| Florida | 161 | #103 | #66 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #108 | #87 |
| Texas | 270 | #111 | #55 |
| Illinois | 81 | #112 | #69 |
| Washington | 55 | #117 | #57 |
| Alaska | 6 | #120 | #81 |
| Arizona | 50 | #127 | #53 |
| Idaho | 16 | #128 | #52 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | #129 | #50 |
| Utah | 34 | #131 | #82 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #132 | #72 |
| Nevada | 18 | #135 | #51 |
| Maine | 8 | #138 | #46 |
| Colorado | 40 | #142 | #58 |
| Ohio | 75 | #143 | #85 |
| Minnesota | 36 | #150 | #47 |
| Georgia | 64 | #155 | #92 |
| North Carolina | 65 | #156 | #87 |
| Alabama | 27 | #162 | #163 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #162 | #187 |
| Kentucky | 27 | #165 | #118 |
| Oregon | 21 | #172 | #82 |
| Indiana | 39 | #178 | #116 |
| South Carolina | 26 | #183 | #118 |
| Montana | 6 | #185 | #68 |
| Michigan | 48 | #185 | #86 |
| Missouri | 33 | #188 | #82 |
| Wisconsin | 27 | #206 | #39 |
| Tennessee | 37 | #213 | #131 |
| Louisiana | 19 | #232 | #96 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #254 | #70 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #255 | #114 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #255 | #144 |
| Kansas | 12 | #268 | #91 |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #282 | #94 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,556 | #104 | 5 | #12,689 |
| 2024 | 2,627 | #100 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,786 | #90 | 6 | #11,327 |
| 2022 | 3,005 | #79 | — | — |
| 2021 | 3,248 | #77 | — | — |
| 2020 | 3,157 | #81 | 5 | #12,738 |
| 2019 | 3,491 | #76 | — | — |
| 2018 | 3,474 | #79 | — | — |
| 2017 | 3,712 | #72 | — | — |
| 2016 | 3,947 | #68 | — | — |
| 2015 | 4,251 | #64 | 9 | #8,274 |
| 2014 | 4,619 | #51 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5,031 | #43 | 9 | #8,348 |
| 2012 | 5,917 | #32 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6,282 | #32 | 8 | #9,044 |
| 2010 | 7,027 | #19 | 5 | #12,932 |
| 2009 | 7,325 | #25 | 12 | #6,959 |
| 2008 | 7,872 | #25 | 7 | #10,253 |
| 2007 | 8,439 | #23 | 10 | #7,792 |
| 2006 | 8,423 | #25 | 16 | #5,388 |
| 2005 | 8,595 | #26 | 10 | #7,309 |
| 2004 | 8,685 | #24 | 40 | #2,662 |
| 2003 | 8,798 | #26 | 10 | #6,900 |
| 2002 | 7,992 | #31 | 12 | #5,851 |
| 2001 | 8,032 | #33 | 8 | #7,806 |
| 2000 | 7,829 | #35 | 13 | #5,388 |
| 1999 | 5,369 | #54 | 8 | #7,407 |
| 1998 | 4,473 | #70 | — | — |
| 1997 | 4,148 | #80 | 7 | #7,571 |
| 1996 | 3,762 | #93 | 10 | #5,695 |
| 1995 | 2,965 | #111 | 6 | #8,169 |
| 1994 | 2,688 | #119 | 12 | #4,901 |
| 1993 | 2,531 | #130 | 6 | #7,998 |
| 1992 | 1,915 | #160 | 5 | #8,914 |
| 1991 | 1,506 | #196 | 5 | #8,675 |
| 1990 | 946 | #293 | — | — |
| 1989 | 752 | #339 | 9 | #5,325 |
| 1988 | 673 | #363 | 5 | #7,701 |
| 1987 | 537 | #415 | 6 | #6,398 |
| 1986 | 454 | #472 | — | — |
| 1985 | 370 | #538 | — | — |
| 1984 | 226 | #725 | — | — |
| 1983 | 182 | #844 | — | — |
| 1982 | 170 | #895 | — | — |
| 1981 | 144 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1980 | 81 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1979 | 85 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1978 | 102 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1977 | 110 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 1975 | 24 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,721 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,893 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,178 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,514 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,058 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,121 | — | — |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,500 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,667 |
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).