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Hayli vs Haylie

American parents have registered 10,232 Haylies since 1880, against 1,838 Haylis. Haylie is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Hayli 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

Of the 49 years in which either name was published, Haylie for 48 years and Hayli for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Hayli Haylie
Total US births 1,83810,232
Most in one year 114770
Babies in 2025 under 537
Estimated living today 1,80010,000
Median age today 2320
Peak year 20002007
Best rank 1,558th girls427th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,903rd
First recorded 19781977
Girls / boys 1,838 / 010,232 / 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 Haylis alive today are over 23; half the Haylies are over 20. That is 3 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: Hayli and Haylie.