Haylen
Haylen is given to both girls and boys: 19 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,197 among girls’ names and #9,206 among boys’, #8,518 among all names counting both); 1,210 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Haylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Haylen?
#6,197 among girls’ names, 2025
Haylen fell from #3,795 in 2015 to #6,197 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 11.8 per million.
87 babies in 2022, the peak
Haylen peaked in 2022, when 87 babies were given it (81 girls, #2,304 among girls’ names). The 27 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 31% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,197 | 8 | #9,206 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,320 | 8 | #9,313 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,346 | 8 | #9,213 |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,304 | 6 | #11,368 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,568 | 9 | #8,408 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,704 | 10 | #7,712 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,141 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,362 | 8 | #9,111 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,725 | 9 | #8,390 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,610 | 5 | #12,913 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,795 | 6 | #11,186 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,450 | 7 | #10,018 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,871 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,667 | 7 | #10,089 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,880 | 8 | #9,048 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,020 | 10 | #7,781 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,803 | 14 | #6,214 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,345 | 15 | #5,873 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,143 | 11 | #7,272 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,289 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,261 | 9 | #7,867 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,430 | 5 | #11,994 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,935 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,527 | 9 | #7,245 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,898 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,259 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,814 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Haylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,210 Americans recorded as Haylen, 85% are girls and 15% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Haylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haylen, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,210 Americans ever recorded as Haylen. The median Haylen alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 841 people named Haylen (687 women and girls, 154 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 878 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 503 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 698 |
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 Haylen born?
The states with the most babies named Haylen are Texas, California and Georgia, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 146 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 57 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 15 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Haylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Haylen is most over-represented in Texas: since 1999 it was given 1.1 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 Haylen 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 3,430 babies since 1880, Haylen is the most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 111 babies (24%), again the 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 Haylen
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 Haylen and names like it
- Compare Haylen and HailynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHaylen peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Haylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Haylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.