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Hayle

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Hayle has been given to 1,526 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 2003, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Hayle, 2023

1 in 414,000

Hayle over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hayle: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hayle means

Hayle is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Hayle is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,526 girls were recorded with the name Hayle between 1977 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 95 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,833 in 2000.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hayle?

Hayle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hayle sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hayle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hayles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hayle was born before 2002 — so the typical Hayle is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,526
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (750).

Is Hayle 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 2003 (95)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,833
2000

Spellings of Hayle

Hayle is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 17.3% against Hayle's 0.08%.

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 Hayle is used

Across 1910–2025, Hayle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 244,963 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Indiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Missouri1 in 100,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 100,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Hayle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hayle around the world

Where Hayle 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.

  • France
    2024–2025
    #6,386
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hayle by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,833
2000
Peak year
2003
95 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,526
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hayle

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hayle

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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