Hailie
Feminine · “hay meadow”
Hailie respells Hayley, and the English place name behind it is the hay meadow — a field cut for winter fodder, which is what leah names meant in practice.
How old is the name Hailie?
Hailie first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Hailie alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 6,500 people named Hailie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Hailie most popular?
Hailie peaked in 2003, reaching #489 nationally. Today it ranks #1652, 1,163 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From heg leah to Hailie
The story of Hailie
Hayley was an English place name and surname that became a girls' name after the actress Hayley Mills's films of the early 1960s. The respellings multiplied through the 1990s — Haley, Hailey, Hailee, Hailie — and Hailie appears in the American registers rising from 1999, when a well-known rapper named a daughter that. It is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
hay meadow
From the Old English heg, 'hay', and leah, 'wood' or 'clearing'. A second reading takes the first element as heah, 'high'. Both are documented for the English places called Hailey and Hayley, and neither is settled. The Norse Heilagr, 'holy', is sometimes claimed but is weaker.
How the name formed
- heg leah
- Hayley
- Hailie
Related forms: Hailey · Haley · Hayley
Pronouncing Hailie
HAY-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Hailie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1978
- Most girls named
- 2003594 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #489reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- −7.4%125 in 2025, from 135
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Hailie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Hailey in English — spelling variant
- Haley in English — spelling variant
- Hayley in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Hailies among us
people named Hailie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,858 born in 2025 was named Hailie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Hailie
- #1652
- Hailie on the 2025 chart
- #798
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Hailie went to 125 girls in 2025, but Haylie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 162, which makes it the 798th most-given girls’ name of the year — 854 places above the chart.
- Hailie125
- Haylie37
About 1 girl in 9,921 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 12,858 for Hailie itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Janell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Hailie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janell climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janell's path sketches the road Hailie is walking now.
Hailie is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Hailie is headed
Hailie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Hailie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Hailie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The hay-meadow meaning is concrete and belongs to a real family of English place names.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Lee is available as a short form with an enormous record.
- At least five spellings of the sound are in common use.
- The first element is genuinely disputed.
- It will be respelled by other people constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Hailies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,500 people named Hailie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Hailie?
- Hailie is the most-used spelling in US records — 125 of the 162 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Haylie.
- How popular is the name Hailie in 2025?
- Hailie ranks #1652 among US girl names in 2025, with 125 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Hailie?
- About 1 in every 12,858 US girls born in 2025 was named Hailie — 125 in all.
- Will my child share the name Hailie with classmates?
- Hailie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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