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Haydin vs Haylie

American parents have registered 10,232 Haylies since 1880, against 764 Haydins. Haylie is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haydin against Haylie, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haydin Haylie

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

Haylie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Haydin had 10 and Haylie had 32.

Side by side

  Haydin Haylie
Total US births 76410,232
Most in one year 70770
Babies in 2025 737
Estimated living today 76010,000
Median age today 1520
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 2,602nd boys427th girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th3,903rd
First recorded 19931977
Girls / boys 300 / 46410,232 / 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 Haylies alive today are over 20; half the Haydins are over 15. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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