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Halee vs Halie

American parents have registered 7,409 Halies since 1880, against 2,952 Halees. Halie is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Halee Halie

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 53 years in which either name was published, Halie for 51 years and Halee for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Halee Halie
Total US births 2,9527,409
Most in one year 192464
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 2,9007,300
Median age today 2626
Peak year 20002000
Best rank 1,075th girls561st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19741899
Girls / boys 2,952 / 07,409 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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