Name meaning & stats
Hailey
Hailey means “hay clearing”. 181,698 US babies since 1940, peak 2003.
What it means
“hay clearing”
Well documented
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2003
181,698 US babies were named Hailey between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Hailey (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 71% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2003)