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Hayley
Pronounced /ˈheɪli/
Rank in 2024
#1,071
Born in 2024
232
Peak year
1993 · #126
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 232 girls were named Hayley, about 1 in every 6,953.
- It peaked in 1993 with 2,618 babies, ranked #126.
- It first shows up in the records in 1960.
- 51,223 girls have been named Hayley since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Hayley per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.8Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 226 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,941 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Millennials: 21,042 babies, 0.75 per 1,000. Gen Z: 22,776 babies, 0.78 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,238 babies, 0.26 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Localities in England, from Old English hēg (“hay”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hay + -ley (“lea”).
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the UK in the 1970s and the 1980s.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈheɪli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Hayley, CC BY-SA 4.0.