Hayward
Hayward is a boy's name that peaked in 1956, when it was the 753rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 2,100 Haywards are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hayward
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,064
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 753rd
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1884
How old the living Haywards are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,064 babies given the name since 1884, about 2,100 are alive — 42 in every hundred. Roughly 80 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 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 Hayward is most common
Across the country Hayward is recorded 0.70 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Haywards are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Hayward peaked:
Related names
Hayward 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.