Hale

in Georgia

There are 2,409 people with the last name "Hale" in Georgia.

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Ranking in Georgia

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Hale 380
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  1. is 376th most common Baldwin
  2. is 377th most common Crosby
  3. is 378th most common Durham
  4. is 379th most common Curtis
  5. is 380th most common Hale
  6. is 381st most common Flores
  7. is 382nd most common Gregory
  8. is 383rd most common English
  9. is 384th most common Wise

Similar Names and Nicknames

Haley, Hales, Haleem, Haler, Halen, Halek, Halevy, Halem, Halenar, Halee

Most Common First Names for Hale

Robert, James, John, Michael, David, William, Joseph, Kenneth, Thomas, Jennifer



Meaning & History

English (also well established in South Wales): topographic name for someone who lived in a nook or hollow, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’. In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of the several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale.

English: from a Middle English personal name derived from either of two Old English bynames, Hæle ‘hero’ or Hægel, which is probably akin to Germanic Hagano ‘hawthorn’ (see Hain 2).

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Halle.

FOREBEARS Robert Hale, who settled in Cambridge, MA, in 1632, was an ancestor of the revolutionary war patriot and spy Nathan Hale (175576) of CT. The common English surname was brought independently in the 17th century to VA and MD.


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