girls:
158.8k births since 1890
#250 (96th percentile)
boys:
836 births since 1916
#3751 (18th percentile)
overall:
159.7k births since 1890
#475 (94th percentile)
The name Haley is the #475 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 159,651 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 93.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #250 (95.6% percentile) for all time with 158,815 births since 1890. For boys, it ranks #3,751 (18.2% percentile) for all time with 836 births since 1916.
Haley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (1890 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Haley is available in 117 out of the 134 years between 1890 and 2023 (103 years for girls and 69 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Haley has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Haley reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 97.0% percentile (ranked #28) with 4,544 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 4,716 births per million (ranked 96.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Haley ranks #560 for girls (40.9% percentile) with 241 births per million, which is 5.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Haley reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #805) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 22 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Haley".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Haley", 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 Haley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.7% confident that Haley is pronounced as HAY-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HA-lee, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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