Haley

Where Haley comes from

Variant of Hayley, from Old English. Literally, “hay field”
— Wiktionary's entry for Haley
  • From a surname
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,210 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1988
    Haley Bennett born
    American actress and singer
  4. 1988
    Haley Joel Osment born
    American actor
  5. 2000
    Peak, #28
    9,069 babies named Haley — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2006
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #75.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley, popular in the US in the 1990s and the 2000s.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley.
Namesakes
  • Haley Joel Osment · American actor, born 1988
  • Haley Bennett · American actress and singer, born 1988
  • Haley Lu Richardson · American actress, born 1995
  • Haley Reinhart · American singer and actor, born 1990
  • Haley Barbour · Governor of Mississippi, born 1947

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.