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Hayes vs Hayven

American parents have registered 21,886 Hayeses since 1880, against 1,728 Hayvens. Hayes is still ahead, with 2,327 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hayes against Hayven, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hayes Hayven

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

Hayes has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Hayes had 144 and Hayven had 56.

Side by side

  Hayes Hayven
Total US births 21,8861,728
Most in one year 2,327112
Babies in 2025 2,32775
Estimated living today 20,0001,700
Median age today 510
Peak year 20242016
Best rank 160th boys2,033rd girls
Rank in 2025 162nd2,583rd
First recorded 18801996
Girls / boys 961 / 20,9251,468 / 260

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 Hayvens alive today are over 10; half the Hayeses are over 5. That is 5 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.

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