Hayley
#1,250 for girls in 2025, 179 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #5,813
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 2,577 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 51,403since 1960
Hayley over time
Rank among girls' names. Hayley has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,250 | 179 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,070 | 232 | — | |
| 2023 | #971 | 266 | — | |
| 2022 | #829 | 338 | — | |
| 2021 | #704 | 409 | — | |
| 2020 | #674 | 423 | — | |
| 2019 | #697 | 415 | — | |
| 2018 | #632 | 472 | — | |
| 2017 | #611 | 496 | — | |
| 2016 | #623 | 479 | — | |
| 2015 | #548 | 566 | — | |
| 2014 | #517 | 598 | — | |
| 2013 | #544 | 546 | — | |
| 2012 | #459 | 678 | — | |
| 2011 | #431 | 728 | — | |
| 2010 | #430 | 723 | — | |
| 2009 | #423 | 756 | — | |
| 2008 | #380 | 851 | — | |
| 2007 | #306 | 1,110 | — | |
| 2006 | #305 | 1,077 | — | |
| 2005 | #265 | 1,234 | — | |
| 2004 | #247 | 1,297 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #174 | 1,867 | — | |
| 2002 | #192 | 1,670 | — | |
| 2001 | #183 | 1,787 | — | |
| 2000 | #149 | 2,300 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #144 | 2,261 | — | |
| 1998 | #151 | 2,084 | — | |
| 1997 | #136 | 2,353 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #120 | 2,577 | — | |
| 1995 | #135 | 2,359 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #136 | 2,362 | — | |
| 1993 | #126 | 2,618 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #135 | 2,437 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #170 | 1,755 | — | |
| 1990 | #267 | 1,053 | — | |
| 1989 | #285 | 932 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #309 | 801 | — | |
| 1987 | #278 | 884 | — | |
| 1986 | #282 | 868 | — | |
| 1985 | #357 | 664 | — | |
| 1984 | #475 | 433 | — | |
| 1983 | #522 | 364 | — | |
| 1982 | #437 | 494 | — | |
| 1981 | #480 | 440 | — | |
| 1980 | #728 | 229 | — | |
| 1979 | #696 | 243 | — | |
| 1978 | #675 | 236 | — | |
| 1977 | #710 | 218 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,237 | 91 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,175 | 98 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,143 | 101 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,399 | 70 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,353 | 74 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,228 | 91 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,306 | 82 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,193 | 87 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,022 | 103 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,399 | 62 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,153 | 85 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,274 | 71 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,219 | 82 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,305 | 71 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,672 | 46 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,957 | 18 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Hayley! It came in at #4,437, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Hayley is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#242 · 1 in 1,339
- Idaho#275 · 1 in 1,381
- Iowa#307 · 1 in 2,189
- Kansas#334 · 1 in 2,054
- Missouri#401 · 1 in 3,229
Best ever in a state: #60 in Vermont, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #242 | 12 | 1 in 1,339 |
| Idaho | #275 | 5 | 1 in 1,381 |
| Iowa | #307 | 9 | 1 in 2,189 |
| Kansas | #334 | 7 | 1 in 2,054 |
| Missouri | #401 | 10 | 1 in 3,229 |
| Wisconsin | #443 | 7 | 1 in 4,370 |
| Minnesota | #465 | 6 | 1 in 4,629 |
| Mississippi | #492 | 5 | 1 in 3,117 |
| Tennessee | #552 | 6 | 1 in 4,747 |
| Louisiana | #566 | 8 | 1 in 3,657 |
| Texas | #577 | 27 | 1 in 4,115 |
| Massachusetts | #586 | 5 | 1 in 6,130 |
| Pennsylvania | #598 | 12 | 1 in 5,701 |
| Georgia | #615 | 7 | 1 in 4,802 |
| North Carolina | #634 | 6 | 1 in 5,476 |
| Washington | #645 | 5 | 1 in 5,064 |
| Indiana | #661 | 5 | 1 in 7,247 |
| Florida | #717 | 8 | 1 in 5,859 |
| New York | #778 | 15 | 1 in 6,595 |
| Ohio | #840 | 7 | 1 in 10,299 |
| Illinois | #897 | 9 | 1 in 8,299 |
| California | #1,016 | 17 | 1 in 9,608 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Hayley
- 180 spots since 2024 (#1,070 → #1,250)
- 576 spots since 2020 (#674 → #1,250)
- 702 spots since 2015 (#548 → #1,250)
- Biggest jump: 527 spots in 1977 (#1,237 → #710)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 2023 (#829 → #971)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1996 at #120 (2,577 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 47 yrs · run 1977–2023
- Highest: 1 in 680 girls born in 1996 were named Hayley (0.15%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,979 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 42.5% of all girls named Hayley (21,859) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 634 | #1,022 (1968) | #1,763 |
| 1970s | 1,304 | #675 (1978) | #1,092 |
| 1980s | 6,109 | #278 (1987) | #415 |
| 1990s | 21,859 | #120 (1996) | #152 |
| 2000s | 13,949 | #149 (2000) | #262 |
| 2010s | 5,701 | #430 (2010) | #549 |
| 2020s | 1,847 | #674 (2020) | #916 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Hayley in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 6,606 of them was named Hayley, which outranked 94.2% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.