Haila
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAY-luh
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Haila is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “hay clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Haila mean?
English: probably a variant of Hayley
“hay clearing”
Probably a variant of Hayley, an English place and surname from Old English words for hay and clearing.
Is Haila a girl's or a boy's name?
Haila is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Haila in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Haila, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 1944.
Half of all the girls named Haila in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 528 girls in the US were given Haila or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #564, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Haila in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 0 | – |
| 1956 | 0 | – |
| 1955 | 0 | – |
| 1954 | 0 | – |
| 1953 | 0 | – |
| 1952 | 0 | – |
| 1951 | 0 | – |
| 1950 | 0 | – |
| 1949 | 0 | – |
| 1948 | 0 | – |
| 1947 | 0 | – |
| 1946 | 0 | – |
| 1945 | 0 | – |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,685 |
Names like Haila
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Hiba Zayla Huda Zaira Rahma Salma Zaya Zahara Zamira Hadassah
Other spellings of Haila
Names related to Haila
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Harper Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Riley Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Haila: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/haila, updated 20 October 2026.