Haileigh
Haileigh was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,725 among girls’ names; 1,833 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Haileigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haileigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Haileigh?
#15,725 among girls’ names, 2025
Haileigh fell from #3,501 in 2015 to #15,725 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.2 to 3.1 per million.
115 babies in 2002, the peak
Haileigh peaked in 2002, when 115 girls were given it, #1,610 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,725 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,563 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,208 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,765 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,393 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,696 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,822 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,392 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,733 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,664 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,501 | 25.2 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,673 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,193 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,878 | 34.1 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,228 | 48.3 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,241 | 48.4 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,213 | 48.4 |
| 2008 | 93 | #2,164 | 49.2 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,861 | 58.8 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,114 | 48.4 |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,230 | 44.4 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,860 | 55.5 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,790 | 57.5 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,610 | 64.0 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,873 | 51.6 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,036 | 44.6 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,909 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,771 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,671 | 27.0 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,379 | 31.4 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,743 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,639 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,281 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,735 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,043 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,082 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,019 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Haileigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Haileigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Haileigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haileigh, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,833 Americans ever recorded as Haileigh. The median Haileigh alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,460 people named Haileigh (1,460 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,751 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 197 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 293 |
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 Haileigh born?
The states with the most babies named Haileigh are Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 76 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 55 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 47 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 44 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 38 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 33 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 26 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 15 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Haileigh 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 22,132 babies since 1880, Haileigh is the third most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 65 babies (7.7%), again the third 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 Haileigh
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 Haileigh and names like it
- Compare Haileigh and HaleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHaileigh peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haileigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Haileigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Haileigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.