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Hayes

Pronounced /heɪz/

Rank in 2024
#160
Born in 2024
2,249
Peak year
2024 · #160
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 2,249 boys were named Hayes, about 1 in every 763.
  • 2024 is its biggest year on record.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 18,673 boys have been named Hayes since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Hayes per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 759 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 536 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 472 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 311 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 403 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,138 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 13,904 babies, 0.64 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

As an English locational surname, from Old English hæs (“brushwood”) (see hris) and Middle English hay (“enclosure”), heye. As an Irish surname, from Ó hAodha (“descendant of Aodh”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/heɪz/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Hayes, CC BY-SA 4.0.