Hailey
Hailey is a girl's name that peaked in 2003, when it was the 26th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 104th. About 180,000 Haileys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hailey boys named Hailey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 181,710
- Estimated living today
- 180,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 26th
- Rank in 2025
- 104th
- First recorded
- 1922
- Girls / boys
- 181,434 / 276
How old the living Haileys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 181,710 babies given the name since 1922, about 180,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 80,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Old English hīeġ (“hay”) + lēah (“clearing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Haileys
- Hailey Bieber (born 1996)American model and television personality
- Hailey Baptiste (born 2001)American tennis player
- Hailey Van Lith (born 2001)American basketball player
People named Hailey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hailey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hailey is most concentrated in Idaho (2.8×), Nevada (2.6×), Utah (2.1×), Alaska (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular girls’ names the year Hailey peaked:
Hailey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Hailey +1 spelling | 1,605 | 499th |
| Belgium girls | Hailey | 1,369 | 102nd |
| England and Wales girls | Hailey | 1,116 | 371st |
| Sweden girls | Hailey | 961 | 56th |
| Ireland girls | Hailey | 695 | 73rd |
| Switzerland girls | Hailey | 393 | 137th |
| Scotland girls | Hailey | 350 | 151st |
| France boys | Haïley +1 spelling | 220 | 2,101st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Hailey | 126 | 108th |
| Norway girls | Hailey | 69 | 178th |
| Poland girls | Hailey | 14 birth registrations | 475th |
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.
Hailey: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Hailey | 350 | 0.028% | 110th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Hailey | 36 | 0.008% | 284th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Hailey | 7 | 0.011% | 113th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Hailey is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.05% of children were given it – 30 of them.
Hailey: rank by region
In 2025, Hailey was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Hailey | 104 | 52 |
| Wallonia | Hailey | 365 | 7 |
In 2023, Hailey was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Hailey | 8 | 1 |
In 2024, Hailey was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opolskie | Hailey | 124 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Hailey appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (53rd), Province of Antwerp (67th), Province of East Flanders (123rd) and Province of West Flanders (160th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Hailey by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 201 | 92nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hailey 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 girls | Hailey | 52 | 65 |
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
Hailey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.