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Haileigh

Gender
Girl
Say it
HAY-lee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Haileigh 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 Haileigh mean?

English: spelling of Hailey, from an English place name

“hay clearing”

Is Haileigh a girl's or a boy's name?

Haileigh 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 Haileigh in the US?

Rank in 2025
14,937th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Haileigh, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 115 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had the fewest girls named Haileigh since it first appeared, in 1989.

Half of all the girls named Haileigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

1989Busiest: 115 in 20022025
Haileigh in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20249#10,266
202313#8,050
202214#7,626
202115#7,245
202014#7,554
201917#6,694
201811#9,146
201729#4,693
201630#4,631
201545#3,478
201442#3,650
201351#3,165
201260#2,865
201185#2,216
201086#2,237
200989#2,204
200893#2,157
2007113#1,859
200692#2,107
200582#2,224
2004102#1,854
2003105#1,785
2002115#1,605
200193#1,868
200081#2,030
199946#2,893
199848#2,753
199747#2,656
199655#2,369
199544#2,730
199430#3,610
199318#5,200
199221#4,679
199115#5,943
199010#7,874
19898#8,755

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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, “Haileigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/haileigh, updated 20 October 2026.