Hailee Steinfeld Reveals Daughter's Name in Heartfelt Letter to Her 'Sweet Girl'

Charna FlamFri, June 19, 2026 at 8:56 PM UTC

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Josh Allen and Hailee Steinfeld on February 06, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.Credit: Michael Owens/Getty -

Hailee Steinfeld revealed her daughter's name, Harper Haize Allen, in a heartfelt letter on her Substack, Beau Society

Steinfeld and her husband, Josh Allen, welcomed Harper in April after announcing their pregnancy in December 2025

"Your daddy and I look at you often and ask each other the same question: How did we get so lucky to have you?" the actress wrote in the June 19 letter

Hailee Steinfeld has revealed the name of her baby girl.

On Friday, June 19, the actress penned a heartfelt letter to her infant daughter on her Substack, Beau Society. She began the letter directly addressing her baby girl, Harper Haize Allen.

The actress, 29, and her husband, Josh Allen, revealed that they welcomed Harper in April. The pair announced that they were expecting their first baby together last December, seven months after they tied the knot in Santa Barbara, Calif.

In Steinfeld's June 19 letter, she wrote about her amazement at being Harper's mother. "You've been here for only a short while now, and somehow it feels as though you've always been ours," she wrote. "There are moments (like right now, as you sleep so soundly on my chest), I still look at you and wonder how you're real. These last few months have been beautiful and exhausting. Sacred and so special. The longest days and the shortest season all at once."

Hailee Steinfeld on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California.Credit: Christopher Polk/Getty

As she continued, she remarked on the common advice that "becoming a mother changes everything," adding, "but no one tells you how, why, or when exactly."

"It isn't always in the big moments," she wrote. "Sometimes it's realizing that I no longer measure time in months or years, but in ounces, naps missed and naps miraculously taken, in diaper changes, and the quiet triumph of a successful transfer from my arms to your crib."

"Your daddy and I look at you often and ask each other the same question: How did we get so lucky to have you?"

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"Everyone tells me not to blink. Now I understand why. Because already, I miss versions of you that still feel like yesterday: The way you'd make sure we'd have multiple visits throughout the night, the impossibly small diapers we swore looked enormous before you arrived," she wrote.

The singer explained, "I want your baby hair to stay this soft forever, but I long for the day you might ask me to braid it down your back while we're sitting in the grass. I could tear up at the thought of your tiny toes getting bigger, but I know that someday your big-girl feet will carry you through this big world."

"I've learned that motherhood isn't made up of grand moments as much as the tiny, precious ones," Steinfeld wrote. "The quiet realization, over and over again, that my heart is now somehow living outside of my body and it always will."

Josh Allen and Hailee Steinfeld on February 06, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.Credit: Michael Owens/Getty

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Days before Steinfeld published the letter, she appeared on a Substack livestream on Wednesday, June 17, and shared that her summer focus is Harper. "So this is the only summer that she will be a baby baby. And this will be the only summer that I have her in my arms. By next summer, she'll be running around," Steinfeld said of her daughter, according to E! News.

"The goal is to just be incredibly present and truly soak up every moment," she continued. "Because life happens and life moves fast anyway."

"And I now fully understand what every parent ever has said, like you blink and it all just goes by so fast. It is so very true and so this summer my goal is to be completely present."

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