girls:
1.8k births since 1989
#3967 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1989
#5936 (23rd percentile)
The name Haileigh is the #5,936 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,819 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 23.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,967 (30.6% percentile) for all time with 1,819 births since 1989.
Haileigh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (first recorded for girls in 1989).
For girls, Haileigh reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 12.3% percentile (ranked #784) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 58 births per million (ranked 12.3% percentile). Despite a low point in 2009, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Haileigh ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 12.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Haileigh".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Haileigh", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 48 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Hailey" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Hailey..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Haileigh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.2% confident that Haileigh is pronounced as HAY-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAI-lee, at 10.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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