Fun Facts About the Name Haisleigh
- 275 babies named Haisleigh: U.S. records list 275 babies given the name Haisleigh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Haisleigh Mean?
Haisleigh is a modern English spelling of a name assembled from two familiar elements. Its ending, -leigh, comes from Old English lēah, meaning a woodland clearing or meadow - the same element behind countless English place names and surnames, from Leigh and Bradley to Ashley. The opening element, spelled Hai-, is far less certain. It may echo the hay element (Old English hēg) found in Hayley, which would give a literal sense of "hay meadow." It may instead have been shaped by other names beginning with Hai- or containing -ais-, such as Hailey or Paisley, or be a purely decorative respelling of the vowel sound. Because no standard reference documents a settled derivation, the most accurate summary of the name's meaning is that it is uncertain, with "hay meadow" a plausible but unconfirmed reading.
Haisleigh Name History & Origins
The -leigh ending of Haisleigh belongs to a family of English names taken from place names. In Old English, lēah named a clearing or meadow in woodland, and the word survives in places and surnames from Leigh and Ashleigh to Hayley. From the later twentieth century, the -leigh spelling (rather than -ley) became a widespread fashion in the United States, Britain, and other English-speaking countries, producing forms such as Kayleigh, Ryleigh, and Oakleigh. Haisleigh follows that spelling style, and its opening Hai- echoes Hailey or Hayley, though the extra s is not explained by any documented line of descent from those names.
Records of the given name's earliest use are thin, and the related English surname Haisley has a separate and equally uncertain derivation, so it does not settle the given name's history. The clearly documented background is therefore the Old English place-name element lēah and the modern -leigh spelling convention, not a long line of earlier forms of Haisleigh itself.
How Popular is the Name Haisleigh?
Haisleigh has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2022. Its best rank was #2,322 in 2022.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,142 | 25 | 0.0016% |
| 2024 | #4,491 | 31 | 0.0019% |
| 2023 | #4,136 | 35 | 0.0022% |
| 2022 | #2,322 | 80 | 0.0049% |
| 2021 | #2,969 | 56 | 0.0034% |
| 2020 | #7,029 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2019 | #9,998 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2018 | #7,509 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2017 | #13,204 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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