Hayleigh
Hayleigh was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,802 among girls’ names; 5,527 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,470 Americans named Hayleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hayleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hayleigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hayleigh 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 Hayleigh?
#4,802 among girls’ names, 2025
Hayleigh fell from #1,303 in 2015 to #4,802 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.02 per 1,000.
323 babies in 2010, the peak
Hayleigh peaked in 2010, when 323 girls were given it, #832 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,802 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,605 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,244 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,240 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,599 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,608 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,256 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,986 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,921 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 125 | #1,706 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 184 | #1,303 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 181 | #1,310 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,051 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 253 | #1,003 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 317 | #833 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 323 | #832 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 320 | #868 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,023 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 274 | #981 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 251 | #1,020 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 252 | #972 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 226 | #1,030 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 250 | #941 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 212 | #1,025 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 222 | #970 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 198 | #1,047 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 146 | #1,270 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,405 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 114 | #1,448 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,627 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 99 | #1,539 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,727 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,045 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,619 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,385 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,023 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,929 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,401 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,308 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,330 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hayleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hayleigh 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 Hayleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hayleigh, and how old are they?
5,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,527 Americans ever recorded as Hayleigh. The median Hayleigh alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,421 people named Hayleigh (4,417 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,196 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 467 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
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 Hayleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Hayleigh are Texas, North Carolina and Ohio, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 403 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 316 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 295 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 256 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 237 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 236 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 195 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 180 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 163 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 140 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Hayleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hayleigh is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1986 it was given 1.8 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 Hayleigh 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 22,132 babies since 1880, Hayleigh is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 65 babies (43%), again the second 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 Hayleigh
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 Hayleigh and names like it
- Compare Hayleigh and HaleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHayleigh peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hayleigh since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Hayleigh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Hayleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hayleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.