How Many People Are Named Hailey?
people named Hailey are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,900 people in the US has this name
Based on 181,710 babies named Hailey in Social Security records from 1922 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
8,808 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of HAYLEY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Hailey in English. Counting Hailey and these spellings together, about 470,187 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Hailey (99.9%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Hailey alive today is about 18 years old, and 91% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Hailey first appears in the records in 1922 and was given most often in 2003, to 8,808 babies. In 2025, 2,561 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1922 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Hailey never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #19, in 2010, and it was in the top 100 for 29 years, 1996 to 2024. In 2025 it ranked #104.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #104 |
| Best rank | #19 (2010) |
| Years in the top 100 | 29 (1996 to 2024) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #27 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Hailey alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Hailey were born in California than in any other state: about 22,002 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Hailey was given 2.6 times as often in Idaho, 2.5 times in Wyoming and 2.3 times in Montana.
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