Haylee
Haylee was given to 153 girls in 2025, #1,419 among girls’ names; 30,233 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 29,900 Americans named Haylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Haylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Haylee is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Haylee?
#1,419 among girls’ names, 2025
Haylee fell from #482 in 2015 to #1,419 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.37 to 0.10 per 1,000.
1,522 babies in 2009, the peak
Haylee peaked in 2009, when 1,522 girls were given it, #211 among girls’ names. The 153 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 153 | #1,419 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 164 | #1,379 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 190 | #1,235 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 259 | #1,009 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 280 | #943 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 346 | #787 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 403 | #709 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 444 | #666 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 523 | #577 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 526 | #585 | 0.30 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 669 | #482 | 0.37 |
| 2014 | 817 | #399 | 0.46 |
| 2013 | 954 | #338 | 0.54 |
| 2012 | 1,064 | #298 | 0.60 |
| 2011 | 1,276 | #249 | 0.73 |
| 2010 | 1,249 | #263 | 0.70 |
| 2009 | 1,522 | #211 | 0.83 |
| 2008 | 1,468 | #232 | 0.78 |
| 2007 | 1,498 | #237 | 0.78 |
| 2006 | 1,376 | #247 | 0.72 |
| 2005 | 1,483 | #230 | 0.80 |
| 2004 | 1,368 | #237 | 0.74 |
| 2003 | 1,504 | #216 | 0.82 |
| 2002 | 1,281 | #248 | 0.71 |
| 2001 | 1,237 | #256 | 0.69 |
| 2000 | 1,262 | #260 | 0.69 |
| 1999 | 967 | #321 | 0.55 |
| 1998 | 808 | #357 | 0.46 |
| 1997 | 779 | #355 | 0.45 |
| 1996 | 772 | #358 | 0.44 |
| 1995 | 648 | #404 | 0.37 |
| 1994 | 543 | #465 | 0.30 |
| 1993 | 561 | #445 | 0.31 |
| 1992 | 424 | #555 | 0.23 |
| 1991 | 271 | #759 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 181 | #1,001 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 149 | #1,110 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 160 | #1,017 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 113 | #1,252 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 105 | #1,288 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 74 | #1,608 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,121 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,972 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,742 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,315 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,153 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,271 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,825 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,209 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,567 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,671 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,237 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,908 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,797 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,404 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Haylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Haylee has been given almost only to girls: 20 boys in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Haylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haylee, and how old are they?
29,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 30,233 Americans ever recorded as Haylee. The median Haylee alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 24,993 people named Haylee (24,954 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28,658 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,690 |
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 Haylee born?
The states with the most babies named Haylee are New York, Texas and California, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 15 | #1,000 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,658 | 1.0× |
| California | 10 | #2,005 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #773 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,191 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,991 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,433 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 6 | #967 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,480 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,490 | 0.6× |
Where Haylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Haylee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1968 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Haylee 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 508,829 babies since 1880, Haylee is the fifth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 153 of their 6,158 babies (2.5%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Haylee
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 Haylee and names like it
- Compare Haylee and HaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHaylee peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haylee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Haylee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Haylee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Haylee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.