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Haylee vs Haylie

American parents have registered 30,233 Haylees since 1880, against 10,232 Haylies. Haylee is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haylee against Haylie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haylee Haylie

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

Haylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1979, when Haylee had 25 and Haylie had 17.

Side by side

  Haylee Haylie
Total US births 30,23310,232
Most in one year 1,522770
Babies in 2025 15337
Estimated living today 30,00010,000
Median age today 1920
Peak year 20092007
Best rank 211th girls427th girls
Rank in 2025 1,417th3,903rd
First recorded 19681977
Girls / boys 30,213 / 2010,232 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Haylee Haylie
France 160425
England and Wales 79101
Ireland 246
Scotland 813
Belgium 611

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: Haylee and Haylie.