Hailes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Hailes, Lothian or Gloucestershire; also Hales, person who lives in a nook or hollow of land
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hailes is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- NZNew Zealand
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Hailes, Lothian or Gloucestershire; also Hales, person who lives in a nook or hollow of land
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hailes is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from Hailes in Gloucestershire, which is named from an old British river name meaning ‘polluted’. Compare Welsh halog ‘dirty’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from Hailes in Lothian, originally in East Lothian, named from the Middle English genitive or plural form of hall ‘hall’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Hailes Castle in East Lothian, Scotland, the origin of the baronetcy (OS grid ref NT5775).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gary Hailesb. 1965GBBritish actor
- Stephen Hailesb. 1965GBresearcher
- Tim Hailesb. 1967GBBritish lawyer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 537 | #43,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 487 | #41,995 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 423 | #49,636 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #616 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| CK Cook Islands | Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua) | 2022 | 2 | #57 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hailes mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Hailes, Lothian or Gloucestershire; also Hales, person who lives in a nook or hollow of land Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hailes have the most bearers?
- Hailes is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hailes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.