boys:
5.1k births since 1884
#1689 (63rd percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1884
#3842 (50th percentile)
The name Hayward is the #3,842 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,053 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 50.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,689 (63.2% percentile) for all time with 5,053 births since 1884.
Hayward first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (first recorded for boys in 1884). Birth data for Hayward is available in 128 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Hayward reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 15.7% percentile (ranked #458) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 102 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Hayward ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hayward".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Hayward is pronounced as HAY-werd, which has 2 syllables.
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