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Haider vs Hailie

American parents have registered 6,565 Hailies since 1880, against 1,077 Haiders. Hailie is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haider against Hailie, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haider Hailie

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

Hailie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1985, when Haider had 6 and Hailie had 6.

Side by side

  Haider Hailie
Total US births 1,0776,565
Most in one year 72594
Babies in 2025 72125
Estimated living today 1,1006,500
Median age today 1019
Peak year 20252003
Best rank 2,056th boys489th girls
Rank in 2025 2,056th1,652nd
First recorded 19851978
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0776,565 / 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 Hailies alive today are over 19; half the Haiders are over 10. That is 9 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 Haider Hailie
England and Wales 2,618284
France 245325
Scotland 2378
Ireland 3237
Belgium 1750
Switzerland 115 Haïlie

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: Haider and Hailie.