Hayle
Hayle was last recorded in 2023, when 8 babies were given it; 1,526 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Hayle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hayle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hayle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hayle is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hayle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,565, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
95 babies in 2003, the peak
Hayle peaked in 2003, when 95 girls were given it, #1,918 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | #11,565 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,211 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,488 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,067 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,430 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,787 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,022 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,397 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,544 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,545 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 25 | #5,452 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,724 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,653 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,906 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,236 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 71 | #2,605 | 36.9 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,826 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,533 | 36.8 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,118 | 46.3 |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,918 | 52.0 |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,102 | 45.1 |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,050 | 45.5 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,833 | 51.8 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,541 | 31.6 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,315 | 34.5 |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,336 | 32.7 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,983 | 40.5 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,055 | 37.5 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,551 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 57 | #2,272 | 31.5 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,933 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,384 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,563 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,021 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,004 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,145 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,329 | 5.2 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,909 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,715 | 4.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,159 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hayle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hayle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hayle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hayle, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,526 Americans ever recorded as Hayle. The median Hayle alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,469 people named Hayle (1,436 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,484 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 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 389 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 999 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 112 |
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 Hayle born?
The states with the most babies named Hayle are Texas, California and Ohio, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 114 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 83 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 49 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 20 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 20 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 19 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Hayle 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 500,123 babies since 1880, Hayle is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,121 babies recorded by SSA was a Hayle (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Hayle
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 Hayle and names like it
- Compare Hayle and HaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHayle peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hayle since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Hayle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hayle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.