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Hailey vs Haislee

American parents have registered 181,710 Haileys since 1880, against 570 Haislees. Hailey is still ahead, with 2,561 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hailey against Haislee, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hailey Haislee

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 2025, when Hailey had 2,561 and Haislee had 67.

Side by side

  Hailey Haislee
Total US births 181,710570
Most in one year 8,80880
Babies in 2025 2,56167
Estimated living today 180,000570
Median age today 194
Peak year 20032020
Best rank 26th girls2,241st girls
Rank in 2025 104th2,583rd
First recorded 19222013
Girls / boys 181,434 / 276570 / 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 Haileys alive today are over 19; half the Haislees are over 4. That is 15 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: Hailey and Haislee.