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Hailey

Girls' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~180,000 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#104 among girls
Births in 2025
2,561 181,710 since 1880
Typical age
19 years, median

Hailey popularity over time

Hailey rank by birth year, 1963–2025Hailey ranked #5,891 in 1963 and #104 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #19, in 2010.#100#1,000#104best #19 in 2010198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1963–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

2003 is the peak year for Hailey, with 8,808 births. The name does not appear in the data until 1922. Hailey has spent 29 years inside the national top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #104 with 2,561 births. Compared with 2015, births are down 40%.

Babies named Hailey per yearPeaks at 8,808 births in 2003.8,808 in 2003019401960198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Hailey?

An estimated 180,000 living Americans are called Hailey. SSA has recorded 181,710 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Hailey?

The typical living Hailey is 19 years old. More of them were born in the 2000s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Hailey a millennial-era name.

Your Hailey

Ages of living people named HaileyHalf of living Haileys are older than 19 and half younger.median 19020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Hailey is most common

Connecticut uses the name 2.4× as often as the country as a whole. New Jersey, Wyoming and New Mexico follow.

Where Hailey is used more than average5 states use the name Hailey more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: 2.0× the national rateWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 2.1× the national rateNJConnecticut: 2.4× the national rateCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: 2.0× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: 1.9× the national rateHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Hailey is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Connecticut 558 2.4×
New Jersey 1,506 2.1×
Wyoming 41 2.0×
New Mexico 227 2.0×
Hawaii 109 1.9×

Is Hailey a boy's or a girl's name?

100% girls0% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Across the whole record, 99.8% of births under the name were girls. The dominant sex is not the same at the end of the record as at the start.

Hailey in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Hailey ranked #371 in 2025 on 115 births. That is 85% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Hailey comes from

From Old English hīeġ (“hay”) + lēah (“clearing”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Hailey

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Hailey Bieber American model and television personality 1996 48
Hailey Baptiste American tennis player 2001 19
Hailey Van Lith American basketball player 2001 12
Hailey Duke American alpine skier 1985 10
Hailey Swirbul American cross-country skier 1998 10
Hailey Clauson American model 1995 9
Hailey Duff Scottish female curler 1997 9
Hailey Langland American sports person 2000 8
Photo credits (4)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 946 in 1990 to 1,511 in 1991 — 1.6 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Hailey

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Hailey was in 2025.

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