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Haley

Girls' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~157,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#861 among girls
Births in 2025
314 160,347 since 1880
Typical age
26 years, median

Haley popularity over time

Haley rank by birth year, 1890–2025Haley ranked #1,210 in 1890 and #861 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #28, in 2000.#100#1,000#861best #28 in 200018901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1890–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2000: 9,100 births recorded as Haley. 1890 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. Haley has spent 17 years inside the national top 100.

The 2025 position is #861, on 314 births. Compared with 2015, births are down 72%. Year on year the rank dropped by 86.

Babies named Haley per yearPeaks at 9,100 births in 2000.9,100 in 2000018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Haley?

About 157,800 people named Haley are alive in the United States today. That is out of 160,347 recorded births 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 Haley?

Median age among living Haleys: 26. The 1990s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Haley a millennial-era name.

Your Haley

Ages of living people named HaleyHalf of living Haleys are older than 26 and half younger.median 26020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Haley is most common

The name is concentrated in Connecticut, at 1.8× the national rate. Iowa, Virginia and Alabama follow.

Where Haley is used more than average5 states use the name Haley 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: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: 1.6× the national rateIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: 1.8× 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: 1.6× the national rateVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 1.5× the national rateMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: 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: 1.6× the national rateALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: 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 Haley is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Connecticut 82 1.8×
Iowa 76 1.6×
Virginia 213 1.6×
Alabama 115 1.6×
Massachusetts 145 1.5×

Haley in England and Wales

ONS recorded 4 births named Haley in 2025, ranking it #4,867. That is 43% lower 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 Haley comes from

Variant of Hayley, from Old English.

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

Notable people named Haley

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Haley Joel Osment American actor 1988 56
Haley Bennett American singer and actress 1988 46
Haley Lu Richardson American actress 1995 40
Haley Barbour Governor of Mississippi 1947 23
Haley Reinhart American singer and actor 1990 23
Haley Ramm American actress 1992 22
Haley Webb American actress 1985 20
Haley Anderson American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, world champion 1991 17
Photo credits (6)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 117 in 1976 to 469 in 1977 — 4.0 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 Haley

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

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