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Haislee

Feminine · “hazel clearing”

2013high 2020
#2583 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare67 girls in 2025

Haislee respells Hazlee, and hazel wood was the standard material for a water-diviner's rod.

How old is the name Haislee?

Haislee first appears in US birth records in 2013 — 12 years ago. The typical Haislee is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Haislee are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Haislee most popular?

Haislee peaked in 2020, reaching #2241 nationally. Today it ranks #2583, 342 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Haislee

Hazel rods were the standard tool of water-diviners across Europe and the nuts a staple of the wild diet; the wood coppices readily and bends without breaking. Hazel became an English girls' name in the nineteenth century. Haislee is a modern American compound and is in current use.

Meaningscholars disagree

hazel clearing

The Hais- front is from hazel, from the Old English hæsel, the tree. The -lee ending is the Old English leah, 'clearing'. The compound is modern American; Hazeley exists as an English place name. Both elements are settled.

How the name formed

  1. hæsel leah
  2. Hazlee
  3. Haislee

Related forms: Haizley · Hazley

Pronouncing Haislee

HAYZ-lee

Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.

Nicknames for Haislee

Moderate

HaisThe front clipping, used inside families rather than generally
LeeThe back of the name, and a name in its own right for both sexes
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 2013–202580400806720132025

US babies named Haislee per year from 2013 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#22412010s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2013
Most girls named
202080 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2241reached in 2020
Change vs 2024
+1.5%67 in 2025, from 66
Haislee sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2020, with 80 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Haislee in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Haizley in English — spelling variant
  • Hazley in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Kentucky, Ohio.

Haislees among us

600

people named Haislee are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 23,989 born in 2025 was named Haislee

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Haislee

#2583
Haislee on the 2025 chart
#809
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Haislee went to 67 girls in 2025, but Haizlee, Hayzlee and Hayslee are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 151, which makes it the 809th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,774 places above the chart.

  • Haislee67
  • Haizlee44
  • Hayzlee31
  • Hayslee9

About 1 girl in 10,644 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 23,989 for Haislee 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

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Is it right for you

The Parris test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Haislee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Parris climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Parris's path sketches the road Haislee is walking now.

40%chance Haislee will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Haislee, aligned on its peakParris· peak 1993not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+30 yrsParris · #8636Haislee today
Haislee today is about where Parris stood in 1998 — 5 years past a #2241-sized peak. By 2013, Parris had settled around #4688.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Haislee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Haislee is headed

20132030

US babies named Haislee per year, 2013 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Haislee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Steady-6% by 2030projected around #2,836 in 2030

Low 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.

Haislee beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Haislee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Haisleethis name67#2583Azra67#2583Jelani67#2583Liba67#2583Talya67#2583

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That hazel was the diviner's wood is a first-rate piece of folklore.
  • Lee is available as a short form with an enormous record.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
What to consider
  • The compound is modern rather than inherited.
  • At least four spellings of the sound are in circulation.
  • It will need spelling out every time.

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Frequently asked

How many Haislees are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Haislee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Haislee?
Haislee is the most-used spelling in US records — 67 of the 151 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Haizlee, Hayzlee and Hayslee.
How popular is the name Haislee in 2025?
Haislee ranks #2583 among US girl names in 2025, with 67 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Haislee?
About 1 in every 23,989 US girls born in 2025 was named Haislee — 67 in all.
Will my child share the name Haislee with classmates?
Haislee will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Haislee

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Azra#2583 · Jelani#2583 · Liba#2583 · Talya#2583 · Nature#2583 · Xylah#2583 · Island#2583 · Maleni#2583

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