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Haiden vs Haig

American parents have registered 6,059 Haidens since 1880, against 691 Haigs. Haiden is still ahead, with 183 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haiden against Haig, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haiden Haig

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 95 years in which either name was published, Haig for 60 years and Haiden for 35 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Haiden Haig
Total US births 6,059691
Most in one year 41930
Babies in 2025 183under 5
Estimated living today 6,000320
Median age today 1539
Peak year 20081922
Best rank 779th boys1,333rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,305thunranked
First recorded 19901913
Girls / boys 1,732 / 4,3270 / 691

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Haigs alive today are over 39; half the Haidens are over 15. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Haiden Haig
England and Wales 4416
France 180 Haïden5

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Haiden and Haig.