Haile — #9161 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Haile

The Social Security Administration has registered 847 babies named Haile between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Haile currently holds the #9161 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 66 babies received it in a single year. Haile is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 222 additional births since 1935.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Haile performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 459 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Haile shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 49 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Haile in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Haile 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 847 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.