as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, which derives from a place name, probably Hailey in Oxfordshire, which was originally named from Old English hēg ‘hay’ + lēah ‘clearing’. Use as a given name began in the 1960s, inspired perhaps by the actress Hayley Mills (b. 1946), daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and enjoyed great popularity until the late 1990s.
| 1,571st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 15,859
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 42,912
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Utah
- has the most people named Hayley per capita
- 1996
- marked the height of its popularity
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35%
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