Haylee
- Pronunciation
- [Hay-lee]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- From The Hay Meadow.
- Origin
- Anglo
About the Name Haylee
Haylee is an Anglo-English name sharing the same topographic roots as Hayley and Hailey: the Old English elements hēg ("hay") and lēah ("meadow" or "woodland clearing"), yielding the meaning "from the hay meadow." The spelling Haylee substitutes the double-e ending for the more common -ey or -ie, a minor orthographic variation that places it in the large family of -ee terminal spellings favoured in late-twentieth-century American naming for their visual softness and femininity. Like Hayley, Hayleigh, Hailey, and Hallie, Haylee emerged from the broader naming wave that elevated meadow-and-hay-compound surnames to mainstream given-name status from the 1990s onward.
The spelling multiplicity within this name family is unusually extensive — Records indicate related forms including Hailey, Haleigh, Hayleigh, and Haylie — reflecting the characteristically American practice of orthographic personalisation that allows parents to choose a visually distinct form of a phonetically shared name. Haylee's double-e ending is among the softer-looking options in this group, giving it a particularly gentle visual impression.
Haylee first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and peaked at #211 in 2009, accumulating 22,547 top-1000 births across its tracked span. The name held on through 2021, when it ranked #943 with 280 births, before dropping out of the top-1000 in subsequent tracked years. Its peak came nearly a decade after its chart debut, suggesting a slow build to maximum popularity typical of names that spread gradually through naming communities.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Haylee
US Popularity History (2000–2021)
Annual US births named Haylee by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2009 with 1,522 girls named Haylee (girl rank #211 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2021, ranked #943 for girls (280 US births). That's 732 places below its 2009 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Haylee Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Haylee the strongest states are Nevada, Iowa, Oklahoma.
Strongest girls-name states
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #975 | 265 |
| 2 | Georgia | #903 | 79 |
| 3 | Texas | #881 | 278 |
| 4 | Florida | #861 | 195 |
| 5 | Illinois | #828 | 72 |
| 6 | New Jersey | #802 | 45 |
| 7 | Indiana | #791 | 57 |
| 8 | North Carolina | #789 | 73 |
| 9 | Michigan | #771 | 72 |
| 10 | Washington | #763 | 36 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Haylee in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Haylee to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Haylee against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).