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Haylee vs Haynes

American parents have registered 30,233 Haylees since 1880, against 616 Hayneses. Haylee is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Haylee Haynes

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 96 years in which either name was published, Haylee for 54 years and Haynes for 42 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Haylee Haynes
Total US births 30,233616
Most in one year 1,52225
Babies in 2025 15316
Estimated living today 30,000310
Median age today 1910
Peak year 20092023
Best rank 211th girls4,886th boys
Rank in 2025 1,417th5,608th
First recorded 19681913
Girls / boys 30,213 / 2011 / 605

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 Haylees alive today are over 19; half the Hayneses are over 10. That is 9 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: Haylee and Haynes.