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Haidyn vs Hailee

American parents have registered 16,490 Hailees since 1880, against 2,945 Haidyns. Hailee is still ahead, with 163 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haidyn against Hailee, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haidyn Hailee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Hailee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Haidyn had 164 and Hailee had 309.

Side by side

  Haidyn Hailee
Total US births 2,94516,490
Most in one year 201850
Babies in 2025 73163
Estimated living today 2,90016,000
Median age today 1320
Peak year 20102003
Best rank 1,384th girls360th girls
Rank in 2025 3,167th1,352nd
First recorded 19931979
Girls / boys 2,234 / 71116,484 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Hailees alive today are over 20; half the Haidyns are over 13. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Haidyn Hailee
England and Wales 458

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Haidyn and Hailee.