Haylea — girls' name
817 babies named Haylea in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 2003. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Haylea was born in this single decade.
55 babies were named Haylea in 2003 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Haylea
The Social Security Administration has registered 817 babies named Haylea between 1986 and 2017, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Haylea currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 55 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Haylea performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 384 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Haylea shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 61 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Haylea in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Haylea 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 817 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.
Haylea at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Haylea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1986
- Peak year (2003)
- 55
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
817 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2003 with 55 births in a single year.
Haylea by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 384 births that decade — 47% of Haylea's all-time total
Haylea decade highlights
- Peak decade 384 births
- Runner-up 306 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Haylea's strongest decade
384 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Haylea by state
Where Haylea concentrates geographically — total births since 1986
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 61 | 7.5% |
| #2 | Tennessee | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #3 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #4 | West Virginia | | 5 | 0.6% |
61 of 817 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 7.5% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.7% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.6% of nationwide
- West Virginia 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 7.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.