Haylee

Where Haylee comes from

The dictionaries list Haylee as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #7,016 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2009
    Peak, #211
    1,522 babies named Haylee — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #482.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley.
Namesakes

No widely known Haylee turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.