Haylie

Where Haylie comes from

Haylie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1977
    First appearance
    #6,892 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Haylie Duff born
    American actress and singer
  3. 1994
    Haylie McCleney born
    American softball player
  4. 2007
    Peak, #427
    770 babies named Haylie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #783.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Haylie Duff · American actress and singer, born 1985
  • Haylie McCleney · American softball player, born 1994
  • Haylie Ecker · Australian musician, born 1975
  • Haylie Johnson · American actress and singer, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.