Haeley — girls' name
397 babies named Haeley in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 2010. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Haeley was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Haeley in 2010 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Haeley
The Social Security Administration has registered 397 babies named Haeley between 1988 and 2015, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Haeley currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Haeley performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 190 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Haeley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Haeley in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Haeley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 397 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Haeley at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Haeley popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1988
- Peak year (2010)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
397 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2010 with 25 births in a single year.
Haeley by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 190 births that decade — 48% of Haeley's all-time total
Haeley decade highlights
- Peak decade 190 births
- Runner-up 139 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Haeley's strongest decade
190 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Haeley by state
Where Haeley concentrates geographically — total births since 1988
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.3% |
5 of 397 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1988–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.