girls:
803 births since 1993
#4913 (14th percentile)
boys:
16.4k births since 1880
#904 (80th percentile)
overall:
17.2k births since 1880
#1969 (75th percentile)
The name Hayes is the #1,969 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,219 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #904 (80.3% percentile) for all time with 16,416 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,913 (14.0% percentile) for all time with 803 births since 1993.
Hayes has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1993 for girls). Birth data for Hayes is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (140 years for boys and 26 years for girls). 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 Hayes has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hayes reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 78.2% percentile (ranked #202) with 947 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 953 births per million (ranked 77.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1989, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hayes is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #206 (77.5% percentile) with 953 births per million.
For girls, Hayes reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #847) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 55 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Hayes ranks #873 for girls (7.8% percentile) with 45 births per million, which is 81.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hayes".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Hayes. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Hayes is pronounced as hayz, which has 1 syllables.
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