Haley Girl
How popular is Haley?
#861 girl name in 2025
314 baby girls were named Haley in the US in 2025, making it the 861st most popular girl name.
Haley popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #861 for girls (▼ 86 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 314 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-72% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #279 in 2015, #514 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2000 (9,069 girls) |
| Highest rank | #28 in 2000 |
| First recorded | 1890 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Haley counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Hailey family of names ranked #83 for girls in 2025 (#75 the year before), with 3,753 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hailey | 2,556 | 68% |
| Haley | 314 | 8% |
| Hayley | 179 | 5% |
| Haylee | 153 | 4% |
| Hailee | 163 | 4% |
| Hailie | 125 | 3% |
| Haleigh | 32 | 1% |
| Haylie | 37 | 1% |
| Hayleigh | 28 | 1% |
| Halley | 43 | 1% |
| Hallee | 43 | 1% |
| Hali | 25 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Haley is most popular
Babies named Haley per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Connecticut: 0.7 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- Iowa: 0.6 per 1,000 (34 girls)
- Nebraska: 0.5 per 1,000 (17 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.4 per 1,000 (79 girls)
- Hawaii: 0.4 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Haley by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 45 | #1,094 |
| 1900s | 32 | #1,170 |
| 1910s | 70 | #1,335 |
| 1920s | 78 | #2,587 |
| 1930s | 33 | #2,438 |
| 1940s | 22 | #3,800 |
| 1950s | 12 | #5,039 |
| 1960s | 376 | #1,347 |
| 1970s | 2,191 | #397 |
| 1980s | 12,776 | #125 |
| 1990s | 71,197 | #30 |
| 2000s | 57,056 | #28 |
| 2010s | 12,889 | #154 |
| 2020s | 2,734 | #514 |
Girl names about as popular as Haley
Questions
- Is Haley a boy or girl name?
- Haley is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Haley were girls.
- How popular is the name Haley?
- 314 baby girls were named Haley in the US in 2025, making it the 861st most popular girl name.
- When was Haley most popular?
- Haley peaked in 2000, when 9,069 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #28 in 2000.
- How many people are named Haley?
- 160,347 babies have been named Haley in the US since 1880. We estimate about 157,691 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 27.
- Where is Haley most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Haley was most common in Connecticut, at 0.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.