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Haidyn vs Hailie

American parents have registered 6,565 Hailies since 1880, against 2,945 Haidyns. Hailie is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haidyn against Hailie, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haidyn Hailie

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

Of the 45 years in which either name was published, Hailie for 41 years and Haidyn for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Haidyn Hailie
Total US births 2,9456,565
Most in one year 201594
Babies in 2025 73125
Estimated living today 2,9006,500
Median age today 1319
Peak year 20102003
Best rank 1,384th girls489th girls
Rank in 2025 3,167th1,652nd
First recorded 19931978
Girls / boys 2,234 / 7116,565 / 0

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 Hailies alive today are over 19; half the Haidyns are over 13. That is 6 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 Hailie
England and Wales 4284

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 Hailie.