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Haily vs Haislee

American parents have registered 3,113 Hailys since 1880, against 570 Haislees. But in 2025 it was Haislee that was commoner, 67 babies to 17.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haily against Haislee, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haily 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

Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Haily for 40 years and Haislee for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Haily Haislee
Total US births 3,113570
Most in one year 18780
Babies in 2025 1767
Estimated living today 3,100570
Median age today 224
Peak year 20032020
Best rank 1,154th girls2,241st girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th2,583rd
First recorded 19762013
Girls / boys 3,113 / 0570 / 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 Hailys alive today are over 22; half the Haislees are over 4. That is 18 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: Haily and Haislee.