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Hayes

Boy's name · #162 in the US (2025) · Trending

96% boys · 4% girls — Hayes is also given to girls: 87 in 2025, about 1 in 25 in recent years. Hayes →

Popularity over time

Hayes ranked #162 in 2025, with about 2,200 boys given the name last year. Roughly 21,000 have carried it since 1880.

Across the states

In recent years, Hayes ran about 4× its national rate in North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming—ranked #30 in North Dakota in 2025.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 46 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

See how Hayes ranks in other countries and regions.

#181 in New Zealand (2025) · #699 in Scotland (2025) · #1,076 in England & Wales (2025) · #188 in Canada (2024).

Famous Hayeses

• Hayes Alan Jenkins — United States figure skater
• Hayes Jones — Athletics competitor
• Hayes MacArthur — American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
• Hayes Gordon — American actor (1920–1999)
• Hayes Alvis — American jazz musician (1907–1972)

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 194,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

• Rutherford B. Hayes — President of the United States from 1877 to 1881
• Helen Hayes — American actress (1900–1993)
• Isaac Hayes — American musician and actor (1942–2008)

In stories & tradition

• Hayes^nl — Star Trek: Enterprise (TV series)

What Hayeses become

Among 39 notable people named Hayes:

Entertainers appear 2.32× more often than among typical names — e.g. Hayes MacArthur, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer.

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