as a Last Name
- 81,537
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Hale
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 322nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 81,537
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Hale per capita
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