Hayes
The boy's name Hayes has been in the national records since 1880, with 21,886 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 162nd. About 20,000 Hayeses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hayes boys named Hayes
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 21,886
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 5
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 160th
- Rank in 2025
- 162nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 961 / 20,925
How old the living Hayeses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 21,886 babies given the name since 1880, about 20,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 18,000 of them are children and 370 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hayess
- Hayes Alan Jenkins (born 1933)United States figure skater
- Hayes Jones (born 1938)athletics competitor
- Hayes MacArthur (born 1977)American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
People named Hayes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hayes is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hayes is most concentrated in Utah (4.1×), South Dakota (3.3×), North Dakota (2.6×), Louisiana (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Hayes peaked:
Hayes elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Hayes | 120 | 1,066th |
| Scotland boys | Hayes | 7 | 647th |
| France boys | Hayes | 5 | 5,843rd |
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.
Related names
Hayes 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.