| Group info: | | Meaning/translation: | hay clearing, hay meadow |
| Language of origin: | Old English |
| Info about origin: | from a family name which derives from a place name, probably Hailey in Oxfordshire in England, with the meaning hay clearing or hay meadow |
| | used as a given name only since around 1960 |
| Words: | heg = the hay (dry grass) Old English |
| | leah = the wood (in the sense of forest), the clearing (open place within a wood), the meadow Old English |
| Topics: | Family name, Geographic name |
| Variants' top ranks: | 19:Hayley England+Wales 1984, 19:Hailey USA 2010, 28:Haley USA 2000, 33:Hallie England+Wales 2022, 52:Halle Scotland 2023, 18:Hailee Malta 2014, 18:Hayleigh Malta 2014, 212:Haylee USA 2009, 372:Haleigh USA 2000, 425:Haylie USA 2007 |
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