Haily
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAY-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Haily is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “hay clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Haily mean?
English: spelling of Hailee, itself a spelling of Hailey, an English place name and surname
“hay clearing”
A spelling of Hailey, from an English place name meaning hay clearing.
Meaning borrowed from Hailee. More on Wiktionary.
Is Haily a girl's or a boy's name?
Haily is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Haily in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 40% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Haily, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 187 girls. It first appears in the records in 1976.
Half of all the girls named Haily in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,349 girls in the US were given Haily or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #90, up from #6,545 for this spelling alone.
Haily in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,445 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,043 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,231 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,583 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,836 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,548 |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,156 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,860 |
| 2009 | 140 | #1,602 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,717 |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,544 |
| 2006 | 137 | #1,574 |
| 2005 | 154 | #1,392 |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,412 |
| 2003 | 187 | #1,153 |
| 2002 | 166 | #1,212 |
| 2001 | 143 | #1,339 |
| 2000 | 152 | #1,274 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,594 |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,595 |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,680 |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,508 |
| 1995 | 113 | #1,429 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,658 |
| 1993 | 92 | #1,637 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,757 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,414 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,895 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,471 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,491 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,280 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,536 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,455 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,310 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,008 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,560 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
Names like Haily
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Harley, Summer, Riley, Lily, Bailey, Harmony, Hadley, Heaven, Hayden, Destiny, Haven, Ivy
Other spellings of Haily
Hailey, Hayley, Hailee, Haylee, Hailie, Haylie, Heily, Haleigh, Hayleigh, Heyli, Halie
Names related to Haily
More English names
Evelyn, Hudson, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter, Harrison
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, “Haily: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/haily, updated 20 October 2026.