girls:
16.1k births since 1979
#1181 (79th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 2004
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
16.1k births since 1979
#2039 (74th percentile)
The name Hailee is the #2,039 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,142 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 73.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,181 (79.3% percentile) for all time with 16,136 births since 1979. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2004.
Hailee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for girls and 2004 for boys).
The name Hailee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Hailee reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 62.7% percentile (ranked #339) with 424 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 424 births per million (ranked 62.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Hailee ranks #770 for girls (18.7% percentile) with 104 births per million, which is 24.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Hailee reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #846) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hailee".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Hailee is pronounced as HAY-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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