Meaning not yet researched.
Haley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 314 in 2025. Its best rank was #28 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #28 in 2000; #861 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Haley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#861 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #28.
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Haley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 314 girls in 2025. Peak: #28 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 9,069 (2000).
In 2025, 314 US girls were named Haley, making it the 861st most common girls’ name of the year, down 86 places from #775 in 2024. That is 49 fewer than the 363 girls named Haley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #28, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 9,069. For comparison, it was #279 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Haley in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 6 babies. In all, 160,347 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 71,437 babies named Haley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,186 US girls were named Haley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,011. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,119 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Haley ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #215 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), Hayley (51,449 babies since 1880), Haylee (30,233 babies since 1880) and Hailee (16,490 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hallye, Haleah and Haliee are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hallye (41), Haleah (41), Haliee (31), Haleia (5), Halye (5), Haliya (5).
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 Haley 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 5 | #215 | — |
| Connecticut | 9 | #334 | #199 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #427 | #244 |
| Iowa | 7 | #460 | #309 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #527 | #317 |
| Utah | 7 | #561 | #583 |
| Oregon | 6 | #582 | #441 |
| Virginia | 11 | #675 | #252 |
| Illinois | 14 | #686 | #303 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #688 | #170 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #710 | #292 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #733 | #380 |
| Ohio | 11 | #834 | #224 |
| Arizona | 7 | #849 | #547 |
| Indiana | 7 | #852 | #216 |
| Alabama | 5 | #866 | #206 |
| Texas | 31 | #928 | #318 |
| Georgia | 10 | #935 | #242 |
| Colorado | 5 | #965 | #298 |
| Florida | 16 | #975 | #341 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #977 | #298 |
| New York | 15 | #998 | #342 |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,003 | #349 |
| California | 27 | #1,007 | #342 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,007 | #217 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 314 | #861 | — | — |
| 2024 | 363 | #775 | — | — |
| 2023 | 426 | #684 | — | — |
| 2022 | 496 | #604 | — | — |
| 2021 | 548 | #562 | — | — |
| 2020 | 587 | #516 | — | — |
| 2019 | 689 | #452 | — | — |
| 2018 | 808 | #385 | — | — |
| 2017 | 944 | #343 | 6 | #11,250 |
| 2016 | 1,011 | #323 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,135 | #279 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,234 | #267 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,410 | #229 | 5 | #12,802 |
| 2012 | 1,711 | #184 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,959 | #158 | 5 | #12,974 |
| 2010 | 1,988 | #154 | 5 | #12,935 |
| 2009 | 2,625 | #123 | 6 | #11,484 |
| 2008 | 3,342 | #102 | 9 | #8,538 |
| 2007 | 4,200 | #76 | 8 | #9,195 |
| 2006 | 4,298 | #75 | 10 | #7,621 |
| 2005 | 5,128 | #53 | 16 | #5,109 |
| 2004 | 5,728 | #44 | 47 | #2,391 |
| 2003 | 7,198 | #34 | 18 | #4,497 |
| 2002 | 7,457 | #35 | 23 | #3,712 |
| 2001 | 8,011 | #34 | 28 | #3,175 |
| 2000 | 9,069 | #28 | 31 | #2,882 |
| 1999 | 8,202 | #31 | 24 | #3,307 |
| 1998 | 7,934 | #36 | 20 | #3,630 |
| 1997 | 8,687 | #31 | 19 | #3,650 |
| 1996 | 9,042 | #30 | 30 | #2,559 |
| 1995 | 8,208 | #32 | 20 | #3,359 |
| 1994 | 7,803 | #36 | 22 | #3,157 |
| 1993 | 7,618 | #42 | 41 | #1,974 |
| 1992 | 6,040 | #56 | 23 | #2,939 |
| 1991 | 4,463 | #79 | 21 | #3,042 |
| 1990 | 3,200 | #108 | 20 | #3,102 |
| 1989 | 2,362 | #125 | 21 | #2,938 |
| 1988 | 2,004 | #143 | 17 | #3,126 |
| 1987 | 1,557 | #178 | 15 | #3,255 |
| 1986 | 1,278 | #203 | 19 | #2,720 |
| 1985 | 1,378 | #195 | 20 | #2,538 |
| 1984 | 991 | #252 | 12 | #3,544 |
| 1983 | 919 | #259 | 8 | #4,655 |
| 1982 | 1,024 | #245 | 13 | #3,371 |
| 1981 | 773 | #312 | 5 | #6,644 |
| 1980 | 490 | #438 | 12 | #3,489 |
| 1979 | 511 | #414 | 14 | #3,065 |
| 1978 | 518 | #397 | — | — |
| 1977 | 462 | #442 | 7 | #4,784 |
| 1976 | 117 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1974 | 129 | #962 | — | — |
| 1973 | 98 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1972 | 88 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1971 | 85 | #1,296 | 7 | #4,128 |
| 1970 | 73 | #1,423 | 5 | #5,004 |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,353 | 5 | #4,360 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1966 | 44 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,572 | 7 | #3,446 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,690 | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,239 | — | — |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,270 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,754 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,666 | — | — |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,216 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,336 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,596 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,278 | 6 | #3,578 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,954 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,545 | 5 | #3,910 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,871 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,510 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,135 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,832 | 6 | #3,257 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,953 | 8 | #2,825 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,909 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,517 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,298 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,759 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,480 | — | — |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,437 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,679 | — | — |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,225 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,256 | 6 | #3,763 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,668 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,015 | 6 | #3,893 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,931 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,184 | 6 | #3,907 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,189 | 5 | #4,504 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,878 | 9 | #3,119 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,642 | 8 | #3,281 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,039 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,815 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,618 | 9 | #3,061 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,607 | 6 | #3,910 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,137 | 11 | #2,606 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,879 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,127 | 7 | #3,313 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,509 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,989 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,268 | — | — |
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).