Haig
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Haig has been given to 691 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1922, with 30 recorded.
Babies named Haig, 2019
1 in 579,000
Haig 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Haig?
Haig had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 299,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Haig sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haig. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Haigs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Haig was born before 1946 — so the typical Haig is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 329
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (153).
Is Haig 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1922 (30)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.8% average annual change
Spellings of Haig
Haig is not the most common spelling — Craig is, with 53.4% against Haig's 0.12%.
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.
Where Haig is used
Across 1910–2025, Haig was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 257,355 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Haig has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Haig around the world
Where Haig 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.
- England & Wales1996–2024#5,120in 2024
- France1991–1991#3,016in 1991
- Canada1992–1992#1,744in 1992
- South Australia1951–1975#460in 1975
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Haig by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Haig
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Haig
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.