Haze
Haze was given to 126 boys in 2025, #1,429 among boys’ names; 1,342 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Haze and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haze by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Haze mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Haze is “a diminutive of the female given name Hazel.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Haze?
#1,429 among boys’ names, 2025
Haze rose from #3,262 in 2015 to #1,429 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.3 to 73.8 per million.
150 babies in 2023, the peak
Haze peaked in 2023, when 150 babies were given it (135 boys, #1,381 among boys’ names). The 136 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,429 | 73.8 |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,654 | 59.2 |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,381 | 78.9 |
| 2022 | 91 | #1,793 | 52.1 |
| 2021 | 85 | #1,825 | 48.6 |
| 2020 | 89 | #1,736 | 51.6 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,153 | 36.8 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,912 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,210 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,599 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,262 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,171 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,687 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,741 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,023 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,114 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,215 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,791 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,696 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,143 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,698 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,439 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,007 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,774 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,623 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,203 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,495 | 4.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,539 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,902 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,484 | 3.4 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,439 | 10.1 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,557 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,236 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,097 | 7.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,443 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,527 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,015 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,084 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,841 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,586 | 4.6 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,050 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,663 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,211 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,061 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,693 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Haze a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,342 Americans recorded as Haze, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls and 126 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Haze: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haze, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,342 Americans ever recorded as Haze. The median Haze alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 684 people named Haze (171 women and girls, 513 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 563 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 206 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,037 babies since 1880, Haze is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 136 of their 210 babies (65%), 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 Haze
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 Haze and names like it
- Compare Haze and HayzeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHaze peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haze since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Haze.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Haze alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.