Haile
Haile was last recorded in 2025, when 5 babies were given it; 1,073 Americans have been recorded with it between 1935 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Haile and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haile by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Haile?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,143, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 2002, the peak
Haile peaked in 2002, when 72 babies were given it (66 girls, #2,427 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,684 | |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,143 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,042 | 7 | #10,095 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,108 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,047 | 5 | #12,730 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,250 | |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,972 | 6 | #11,243 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,176 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,148 | 6 | #11,167 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,640 | 7 | #10,006 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 15 | #7,905 | 7 | #10,028 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,192 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,224 | 7 | #9,992 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,684 | 5 | #12,924 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,609 | 8 | #9,282 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,212 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,076 | 6 | #11,412 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,877 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,097 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,768 | 6 | #10,424 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,806 | 11 | #6,402 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,427 | 6 | #9,805 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,104 | 8 | #7,798 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,573 | 5 | #10,990 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,058 | 8 | #7,399 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,672 | 6 | #8,867 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,561 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,660 | 5 | #9,524 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,809 | 5 | #9,349 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,924 | 7 | #7,234 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,381 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,192 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,752 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,727 | 5 | #8,592 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,693 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,848 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,715 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,618 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 9 | #3,970 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,216 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #5,930 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,333 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 9 | #3,542 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,436 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #2,995 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 11 | #2,312 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Haile a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,073 Americans recorded as Haile, 79% are girls and 21% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Haile: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haile, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,073 Americans ever recorded as Haile. The median Haile alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,531 people named Haile (852 women and girls, 679 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,005 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Haile rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 42 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 687 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 139 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 499,670 babies since 1880, Haile is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 6,126 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Haile
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Haile and names like it
- Compare Haile and HaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHaile peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haile since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Haile.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Haile alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.