How Many People Are Named Hayleigh?

5,473

people named Hayleigh are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 62,449 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,527 babies named Hayleigh in Social Security records from 1986 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,511

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,960

See the top 100

Peak Year

2010

323 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: HAY-lee
Gender: Primarily Female

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 Hayleigh in English. Counting Hayleigh and these spellings together, about 470,187 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Hayleigh in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Hayleigh alive today is about 18 years old, and 93% are under 30. Half of them were between 13 and 23 in 2025.

Under 30 5,098
93.1%
30 to 59 375
6.9%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Hayleigh first appears in the records in 1986 and was given most often in 2010, to 323 babies. In 2025, 28 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1986 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Hayleigh has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #832, in 2010. In 2025 it ranked #4,802.

Girls
Rank in 2025#4,802
Best rank#832 (2010)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,000 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Hayleigh alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Hayleigh were born in Texas than in any other state: about 399 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Hayleigh was given 3.5 times as often in West Virginia, 2.8 times in North Carolina and 2.7 times in Alabama.

Texas 399
North Carolina 313
Ohio 292
Florida 254
California 235
New York 234
Georgia 193
Pennsylvania 178
Virginia 162
Michigan 139
Alabama 136
Indiana 132
Illinois 121
Tennessee 120
Missouri 105
Louisiana 104
Kentucky 82
Oklahoma 60
West Virginia 59
South Carolina 58
Mississippi 57
Arizona 46
Massachusetts 46
Colorado 35
Maryland 34
Washington 29
Iowa 23
Wisconsin 22
Maine 19
Kansas 16
New Jersey 11
New Hampshire 11
Arkansas 10
Oregon 5
Nevada 5

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