Meaning not yet researched.
Hayley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 179 in 2025. Its best rank was #120 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #120 in 1996; #1,251 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hayley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,251 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #120.
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Hayley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 179 girls in 2025. Peak: #120 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 2,618 (1993).
In 2025, 179 US girls were named Hayley, making it the 1,251st most common girls’ name of the year, down 180 places from #1,071 in 2024. That is 53 fewer than the 232 girls named Hayley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #120, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,618, in 1993. For comparison, it was #548 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hayley in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 9 babies. In all, 51,449 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 21,881 babies named Hayley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,709 US girls were named Hayley; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 496. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,979 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hayley ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #555 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), Haylie (10,232 babies since 1880), Hayle (1,526 babies since 1880) and Haley (160,347 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hayla, Hayleah and Hayliee are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Hailey and Haylee.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hayla (474), Hayleah (12), Hayliee (10), Hay (7).
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.
Hayley is listed as a nickname for Hailey, Haylee.
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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 5 | #555 | — |
| Virginia | 10 | #715 | #420 |
| New York | 18 | #878 | #362 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #930 | #264 |
| Washington | 6 | #968 | #726 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,008 | #486 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,019 | #632 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,153 | #339 |
| California | 22 | #1,162 | #533 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,243 | #393 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,289 | #404 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,434 | #705 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,489 | #727 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 179 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 2024 | 232 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 2023 | 266 | #971 | — | — |
| 2022 | 338 | #829 | — | — |
| 2021 | 409 | #704 | — | — |
| 2020 | 423 | #674 | — | — |
| 2019 | 415 | #697 | — | — |
| 2018 | 472 | #632 | — | — |
| 2017 | 496 | #612 | — | — |
| 2016 | 479 | #623 | — | — |
| 2015 | 566 | #548 | — | — |
| 2014 | 598 | #517 | — | — |
| 2013 | 546 | #544 | — | — |
| 2012 | 678 | #459 | — | — |
| 2011 | 728 | #431 | — | — |
| 2010 | 723 | #430 | — | — |
| 2009 | 756 | #423 | — | — |
| 2008 | 851 | #381 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,110 | #306 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,077 | #305 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,234 | #265 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,297 | #247 | 13 | #5,928 |
| 2003 | 1,867 | #174 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,670 | #192 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,787 | #183 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,300 | #149 | 5 | #11,018 |
| 1999 | 2,261 | #144 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,084 | #151 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,353 | #136 | 5 | #9,811 |
| 1996 | 2,577 | #120 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,359 | #135 | 5 | #9,373 |
| 1994 | 2,362 | #136 | — | — |
| 1993 | 2,618 | #126 | 6 | #8,009 |
| 1992 | 2,437 | #135 | 6 | #7,814 |
| 1991 | 1,755 | #170 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,053 | #267 | — | — |
| 1989 | 932 | #285 | 6 | #7,334 |
| 1988 | 801 | #309 | — | — |
| 1987 | 884 | #278 | — | — |
| 1986 | 868 | #282 | — | — |
| 1985 | 664 | #357 | — | — |
| 1984 | 433 | #475 | — | — |
| 1983 | 364 | #523 | — | — |
| 1982 | 494 | #437 | — | — |
| 1981 | 440 | #480 | — | — |
| 1980 | 229 | #728 | — | — |
| 1979 | 243 | #696 | — | — |
| 1978 | 236 | #676 | — | — |
| 1977 | 218 | #711 | — | — |
| 1976 | 91 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1975 | 98 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1974 | 101 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1972 | 74 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1971 | 91 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1970 | 82 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1969 | 87 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1968 | 103 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1966 | 85 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1964 | 82 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1963 | 71 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,001 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,577 | — | — |
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).