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Hayleigh

#4,802 in 2025Girls' name

Hay + wood, clearing, through Hayley

Hayleigh has been given to 5,527 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #4,802 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 323 recorded.

Babies named Hayleigh, 2025

1 in 118,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hayleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Hay + wood, clearing, through Hayley

surname transfer

What Hayleigh means

Hayleigh belongs to the name family reached through Hayleigh → Hayley. Its meaning is “hay + wood, clearing”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hayleigh is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Hayleigh is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hayley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,527 girls were recorded with the name Hayleigh between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 323 in 2010; its best national rank was #832 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,608 in 2020 to #4,802 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,303 in 2015 to #4,802 in 2025.

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 Hayleigh?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,802
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hayleigh 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 2025 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hayleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hayleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hayleigh was born before 2008 — so the typical Hayleigh is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,527
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (2,461).

Is Hayleigh 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
−1,197
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,194
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,499
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.15×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.7%
Peak was 2010 (323)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#832
2010

Spellings of Hayleigh

Hayleigh is not the most common spelling — Ryleigh is, with 15.8% against Hayleigh's 2.5%.

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 Hayleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Hayleigh was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 31,943 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 16,667
  3. 3Virginia1 in 16,667
  4. 4New York1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 25,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 25,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 33,333

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.

Hayleigh around the world

Where Hayleigh 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1985–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2013
    #370
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    1991–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hayleigh in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Hayleigh. Linked forms have their own page here.

Haleigh

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Hayleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,802
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,194
Best rank ever
#832
2010
Peak year
2010
323 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,527
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Hayleigh

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

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Names with a curve like Hayleigh

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hayleigh, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Hayleigh

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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