Hailey — #100 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Hailey

The Social Security Administration has registered 178,851 babies named Hailey between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hailey currently holds the #100 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 8,798 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hailey performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 81,988 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Hailey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 21,853 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Hailey in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hailey 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 178,851 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.