Heyli
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAY-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Heyli is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “hay clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Heyli mean?
English: variant of Hayley, from an English surname
“hay clearing”
A phonetic respelling of Hayley, which comes from an English place name meaning hay clearing.
Is Heyli a girl's or a boy's name?
Heyli is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Heyli in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 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, 10 girls in the US were named Heyli, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had the most girls named Heyli of any year since it first appeared, in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Heyli in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,349 girls in the US were given Heyli or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #90, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.
Heyli in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
Names like Heyli
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Harlow, Harper, Halo, Kehlani, Kaylani, Malani, Kailani, Sevyn, Meilani, Jaylani, Milani, Collins
Other spellings of Heyli
Hailey, Hayley, Hailee, Haylee, Hailie, Haylie, Heily, Haleigh, Hayleigh, Haily, Halie
Names related to Heyli
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
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, “Heyli: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/heyli, updated 20 October 2026.