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Haylee vs Haylei

American parents have registered 30,233 Haylees since 1880, against 790 Hayleis. Haylee is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haylee against Haylei, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haylee Haylei

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

Haylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Haylee had 1,483 and Haylei had 64.

Side by side

  Haylee Haylei
Total US births 30,233790
Most in one year 1,52264
Babies in 2025 153under 5
Estimated living today 30,000780
Median age today 1918
Peak year 20092005
Best rank 211th girls2,636th girls
Rank in 2025 1,417thunranked
First recorded 19681990
Girls / boys 30,213 / 20790 / 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.

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: Haylee and Haylei.