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Haylee vs Hayze

American parents have registered 30,233 Haylees since 1880, against 582 Hayzes. Haylee is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Haylee Hayze

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 2024, when Haylee had 164 and Hayze had 73.

Side by side

  Haylee Hayze
Total US births 30,233582
Most in one year 1,52273
Babies in 2025 15365
Estimated living today 30,000580
Median age today 195
Peak year 20092024
Best rank 211th girls2,169th boys
Rank in 2025 1,417th2,183rd
First recorded 19682003
Girls / boys 30,213 / 2011 / 571

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 Hayzes are over 5. That is 14 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: Haylee and Hayze.