Hailee
Hailee was given to 163 girls in 2025, #1,355 among girls’ names; 16,490 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,300 Americans named Hailee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hailee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hailee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hailee is “a female given name.”
Modern variant of Hayley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hailee?
#1,355 among girls’ names, 2025
Hailee fell from #828 in 2015 to #1,355 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.10 per 1,000.
850 babies in 2003, the peak
Hailee peaked in 2003, when 850 girls were given it, #360 among girls’ names. The 163 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 163 | #1,355 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 180 | #1,285 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,258 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 222 | #1,115 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,184 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 220 | #1,112 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 275 | #958 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 309 | #876 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 312 | #877 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 293 | #937 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 339 | #828 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 365 | #766 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 382 | #723 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 422 | #670 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 522 | #560 | 0.30 |
| 2010 | 572 | #521 | 0.32 |
| 2009 | 590 | #512 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 691 | #458 | 0.37 |
| 2007 | 728 | #442 | 0.38 |
| 2006 | 689 | #458 | 0.36 |
| 2005 | 779 | #404 | 0.42 |
| 2004 | 790 | #393 | 0.43 |
| 2003 | 850 | #360 | 0.47 |
| 2002 | 801 | #369 | 0.45 |
| 2001 | 758 | #385 | 0.42 |
| 2000 | 751 | #384 | 0.41 |
| 1999 | 567 | #466 | 0.32 |
| 1998 | 516 | #491 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 479 | #508 | 0.28 |
| 1996 | 508 | #478 | 0.29 |
| 1995 | 396 | #580 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 343 | #637 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 350 | #640 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 255 | #790 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 184 | #1,006 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 111 | #1,426 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 78 | #1,735 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 93 | #1,467 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,245 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,084 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,756 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,804 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,165 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,644 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,543 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hailee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hailee has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Hailee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hailee, and how old are they?
16,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,490 Americans ever recorded as Hailee. The median Hailee alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 13,240 people named Hailee (13,225 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,227 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,460 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,430 |
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).
Where are babies named Hailee born?
The states with the most babies named Hailee are California, Florida and Texas, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,252 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,018 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,738 | 0.8× |
| New York | 11 | #1,264 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #737 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,151 | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #657 | 1.2× |
| Colorado | 7 | #738 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,301 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,284 | 1.3× |
Where Hailee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hailee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1979 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hailee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 508,829 babies since 1880, Hailee is the seventh most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 163 of their 6,158 babies (2.6%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Hailee
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 Hailee and names like it
- Compare Hailee and HaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHailee peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hailee since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Hailee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hailee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.