Haile
The girl's name Haile has been in the national records since 1935, with 1,073 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 1,000 Hailes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Haile boys named Haile
Girls and boys called Haile
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 846 girls and 227 boys in all, and in 2010 the split was 24 to 5.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 16 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,073
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2002
- Best rank
- 2,414th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1935
- Girls / boys
- 846 / 227
How old the living Hailes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,073 babies given the name since 1935, about 1,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Hailes
- Haile Selassie I (1892–1975)Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
- Haile Gerima (born 1946)Ethiopian director, film professor, philosopher, and writer
People named Haile with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Haile is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Haile is most concentrated in Florida (5.0×), California (4.0×), Texas (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2002
The most popular girls’ names the year Haile peaked:
Haile elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Haïlé +2 spellings | 385 | 1,375th |
| England and Wales boys | Haile | 22 | 3,411th |
| France girls | Haïlé | 20 | 5,009th |
| England and Wales girls | Haile | 3 | 5,493rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Haile among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Haile | — | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Haile against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.