Meaning not yet researched.
Haylen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,304 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,304 in 2022; #6,198 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Haylen in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,198 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,304.
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Haylen: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,304 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 81 (2022).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Haylen, making it the 6,198th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,877 places from #4,321 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 33 girls named Haylen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,304, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #3,796 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Haylen, making it the 9,210th most common boys’ name of the year, up 108 places from #9,318 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 boys named Haylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,878, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 15. For comparison, it was #11,192 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Haylen in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 7 babies. In all, 1,210 US babies have been given the name, 85% of them girls and 15% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 548 babies named Haylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 493 US girls were named Haylen; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Halen (2,115 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Haylynn 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: Haylynn (208).
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 Haylen in the open dataset we use.
Haylen is listed as a nickname for Jalen.
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 | 19 | #6,198 | 8 | #9,210 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,321 | 8 | #9,318 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,346 | 8 | #9,218 |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,304 | 6 | #11,374 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,568 | 9 | #8,413 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,705 | 10 | #7,717 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,363 | 8 | #9,117 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,725 | 9 | #8,394 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,610 | 5 | #12,919 |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,796 | 6 | #11,192 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,452 | 7 | #10,024 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,668 | 7 | #10,095 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,881 | 8 | #9,055 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,021 | 10 | #7,787 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,804 | 14 | #6,218 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,346 | 15 | #5,878 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,146 | 11 | #7,276 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,290 | 9 | #8,256 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,266 | 9 | #7,874 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,434 | 5 | #12,001 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,940 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,533 | 9 | #7,252 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,905 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,267 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,821 | — | — |
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).