Haylea
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Haylea has been given to 818 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 55 recorded.
Babies named Haylea, 2017
1 in 596,000
Haylea 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Haylea?
Haylea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 596,000
- 6 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 288,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 413,245 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Haylea sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haylea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hayleas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Haylea was born before 2001 — so the typical Haylea is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 46.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 818
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (384).
Is Haylea 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 (55)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.6% average annual change
Spellings of Haylea
Haylea is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 21.7% against Haylea's 0.05%.
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 Haylea is used
Across 1910–2025, Haylea was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 321,050 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in —
- 2Tennessee1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
- 4West Virginia1 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. Haylea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Haylea around the world
Where Haylea 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 & Wales1999–1999#3,900in 1999
- Canada1992–2004#2,752in 2004
- South Australia1982–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Haylea by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Haylea
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Haylea
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.