Hailee is a modern English variant of Hayley — from the Old English hēg-lēah ("hay clearing, meadow"). A top-200 US baby name since 2011. Hailee Steinfeld (born 1996) — *American actress and singer; Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the Coen Brothers' True Grit (2010) at age 13 — among the youngest competitive Best Supporting Actress nominees in history. Played Petra Solano on Jane the Virgin (2014-2019, voice role), Emily Dickinson on Apple TV+'s Dickinson (2019-2021) for three seasons, and Kate Bishop / Hawkeye on Disney+'s Hawkeye (2021) and Marvel's Hawkeye franchise. Voice of Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Across the Spider-Verse (2023) — both films won Academy Awards / nominations for Best Animated Feature. Sinners (2025) — leading role opposite Michael B. Jordan. Singing career launched 2015 with "Love Myself"; her single "Most Girls" (2017) was certified Platinum. Married Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen in May 2025 — among the most-watched celebrity-athlete weddings of the year. Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and Pitch Perfect 3 (2017) as Emily Junk. Founded the Hailee Steinfeld Foundation supporting arts education*.
Featured throughout 2010s-2020s American film, TV, and music.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hailee reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.