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.
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 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 745 of them was named Hayley, which outranked 99.1% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 380,740 of them was named Hayley, which outranked 14.2% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,462 names at #8,868; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.