Haileigh vs Hailey
American parents have registered 181,710 Haileys since 1880, against 1,833 Haileighs. Hailey is still ahead, with 2,561 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Haileigh Hailey
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
Hailey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1922 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1995, when Haileigh had 44 and Hailey had 2,971.
Side by side
| Haileigh | Hailey | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,833 | 181,710 |
| Most in one year | 115 | 8,808 |
| Babies in 2025 | 5 | 2,561 |
| Estimated living today | 1,800 | 180,000 |
| Median age today | 20 | 19 |
| Peak year | 2002 | 2003 |
| Best rank | 1,606th girls | 26th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 14,942nd | 104th |
| First recorded | 1989 | 1922 |
| Girls / boys | 1,833 / 0 | 181,434 / 276 |
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.
Where each one is strongest
- Haileigh Florida (4.4×), Texas (2.7×), Michigan (2.5×)
- Hailey Idaho (2.8×), Nevada (2.6×), Utah (2.1×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Haileigh and Hailey.