Haeli
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Haeli has been given to 231 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Haeli, 2015
1 in 740,000
Haeli over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Haeli?
Haeli had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Haeli sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haeli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Haelis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Haeli was born before 2000 — so the typical Haeli is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 45.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 231
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (104).
Is Haeli rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (19)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.5% average annual change
Spellings of Haeli
Haeli is not the most common spelling — Hazel is, with 46.2% against Haeli's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Haeli around the world
Where Haeli ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Haeli by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Haeli
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Haeli
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.