Heily
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAY-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,351 for girls
Heily is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “hay clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 4,351st for girls in the US (32 babies).
What does Heily mean?
English: Latin American spelling of Hailey
“hay clearing”
Is Heily a girl's or a boy's name?
Heily is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 32 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Heily in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,351st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 32 about 1 in 50,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 37% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 32 girls in the US were named Heily, making it the 4,351st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 54 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had more girls named Heily than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Heily in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,349 girls in the US were given Heily or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #90, up from #4,351 for this spelling alone.
Heily in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,351 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,558 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,422 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,034 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,655 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,334 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,463 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,243 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,607 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,106 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,119 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,652 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,544 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,577 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,058 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,727 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,386 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
Names like Heily
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Blakely, Heavenly, Riley, Hadley, Hayden, Kennedy, Kinsley, Lily, Heaven, Londyn, Harper, Finley
Other spellings of Heily
Hailey, Hayley, Hailee, Haylee, Hailie, Haylie, Haleigh, Hayleigh, Haily, Heyli, Halie
Names related to Heily
More English names
Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, 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, “Heily: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/heily, updated 20 October 2026.