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Haileigh vs Haisley

American parents have registered 5,433 Haisleys since 1880, against 1,833 Haileighs. Haisley is still ahead, with 643 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Haileigh Haisley

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 37 years in which either name was published, Haileigh for 25 years and Haisley for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Haileigh Haisley
Total US births 1,8335,433
Most in one year 115830
Babies in 2025 5643
Estimated living today 1,8005,400
Median age today 204
Peak year 20022020
Best rank 1,606th girls373rd girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd479th
First recorded 19892002
Girls / boys 1,833 / 05,433 / 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 Haileighs alive today are over 20; half the Haisleys are over 4. That is 16 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.

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