Hayes
Hayes places #162 across the country in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. The records carry it back to 1880, but its real era is now, 20,925 American children have carried it so far.
Hayes’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Hayes, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Hayes since 1880
Hayes peaked in 2024 at #160; #162 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Hayes is most common
Hayes is most common in Wyoming: 0.92% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. North Dakota (0.69%) and Montana (0.58%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Hayes
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Blair
#169 in 2025
Jett
#169 in 2025
Freya
#176 in 2025
Max
#180 in 2025 · Latin
Zion
#142 in 2025
Rhett
#188 in 2025
Haven
#190 in 2025
Kaia
#193 in 2025
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About Hayes
Where does Hayes rank right now?
Hayes places #162 across the country in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Hayes have a meaning on record?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Hayes keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
What names go with Hayes?
Blair, Jett and Freya sit nearest to Hayes on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Hayes’s free Name Kit
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