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Haiden vs Haily

American parents have registered 6,059 Haidens since 1880, against 3,113 Hailys. Haiden is still ahead, with 183 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Haiden Haily

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 48 years in which either name was published, Haily for 25 years and Haiden for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Haiden Haily
Total US births 6,0593,113
Most in one year 419187
Babies in 2025 18317
Estimated living today 6,0003,100
Median age today 1522
Peak year 20082003
Best rank 779th boys1,154th girls
Rank in 2025 1,305th6,546th
First recorded 19901976
Girls / boys 1,732 / 4,3273,113 / 0

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 Hailys alive today are over 22; half the Haidens are over 15. That is 7 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 Haily
France 180 Haïden230 Haïly

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 Haily.