Haily
Haily was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,637 among girls’ names; 3,113 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,070 Americans named Haily and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haily by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Haily?
#6,637 among girls’ names, 2025
Haily fell from #4,249 in 2015 to #6,637 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 10.6 per million.
187 babies in 2003, the peak
Haily peaked in 2003, when 187 girls were given it, #1,154 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,637 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,456 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,044 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,816 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,491 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,934 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,497 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,215 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,099 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,346 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,249 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,610 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,852 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,551 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,163 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,865 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 140 | #1,602 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,722 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,547 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 137 | #1,577 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 154 | #1,398 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,418 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 187 | #1,154 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 166 | #1,215 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 143 | #1,344 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 152 | #1,274 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,601 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,599 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,687 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,513 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 113 | #1,432 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,661 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 92 | #1,644 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,762 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,422 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,918 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,501 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,534 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,352 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,599 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,614 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,522 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,533 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,147 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,801 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Haily a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Haily has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Haily: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haily, and how old are they?
3,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,113 Americans ever recorded as Haily. The median Haily alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,969 people named Haily (2,955 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 673 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 330 |
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 Haily born?
The states with the most babies named Haily are California, Texas and New York, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 392 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 233 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 120 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 97 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 79 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 70 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 59 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 58 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 52 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Haily with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Haily?
Haily is a less common spelling of Hailey: SSA has recorded 3,113 Haily and 181,710 Hailey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 441,843 babies since 1880, Haily is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 4,580 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 Haily
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 Haily and names like it
- Compare Haily and HaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHaily peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haily since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Haily.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Haily alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.