Haifa — #11340 US girls' name
219 babies named Haifa in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 36% of names given to girls today.
41% of everyone ever named Haifa was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Haifa in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Haifa
The Social Security Administration has registered 219 babies named Haifa between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Haifa currently holds the #11340 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Haifa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 90 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Haifa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Haifa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Haifa 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 219 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.
Haifa at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Haifa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1980
- Peak year (2018)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
Currently ranks #11340 among girls.
219 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 15 births in a single year.
Haifa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 90 births that decade — 41% of Haifa's all-time total
Haifa decade highlights
- Peak decade 90 births
- Runner-up 47 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Haifa's strongest decade
90 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Haifa by state
Where Haifa concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 2.7% |
6 of 219 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.7% 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, 1980–2024 (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.