Haili
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/haiʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haili is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic [Term?]. Cognates include Karelian hallei, Ingrian haili, dialectal Estonian ail and Votic aili.
- USUnited States1 in 366K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 53K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 352K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Proto-Finnic [Term?]. Cognates include Karelian hallei, Ingrian haili, dialectal Estonian ail and Votic aili.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haili counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Haili | 7 |
| US United States | 910 | 1 in 366K | 868 | Haili | 144 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Haili | 12 |
| ES Spain | 61 | 1 in 820K | 61 | Haili | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Haili | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 417K | — | Haili | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | 7 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Haili is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, fresh Baltic herring (Baltic herring that is sold fresh, i.e. not salted, smoked, pickled or preserved in any other way)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vot, Baltic herring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, herring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Haili Sammelselgb. 1928EEEstonian singer (1928-2019)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 136 | #130,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 121 | #138,304 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 120 | #130,443 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Haili a male or female name?
- Haili is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Haili mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Finnic [Term?]. Cognates include Karelian hallei, Ingrian haili, dialectal Estonian ail and Votic aili. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Haili?
- A machine transcription gives /haiʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Haili have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Haili in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haili.
- How common is the name Haili?
- In the United States, the national register counted 910 people named Haili in 2020, about 1 in 366 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Haili?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hailiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haili”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.