Hayley
given name · Latin script
Meaning: person from Haley, from various English place-names meaning clearing where hay is made
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/heɪli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hayley is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.7K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hayley itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 526 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
147,731 named Hailey, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Haley in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Haley, from various English place-names meaning clearing where hay is made
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hayley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #652 | 147,731as Hailey | 1 in 2.3K | 147K | Haley | 526 |
| CN China | — | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Hayley | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | #252 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 23 | Hayley | 309 |
| AU Australia | #216 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 73 | Hayley | 240 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Hayley | 96 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,920as Hailey | 1 in 5.3K | 1.9K | Hayley | 28 |
| NZ New Zealand | #238 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 32 | Hayley | 137 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 462 | 1 in 37K | 1.4K | Hayley | 51 |
147,731 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling hailey. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Hayley is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An English placename.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Old English; likely "hay meadow"
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, ) Hailey; Haley ['heili]: weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In English, variant spelUng of Haley.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
English: transferred use of the surname, which derives from a placename, probably Hailey in Oxfordshire, which was originally named from Old English h g hay + l ah clearing. Its use as a given name began only in the 1960s, inspired by the actress Hayley Mills, daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, but it has enjoyed great popularity since then. Variant: Haley .
as a word
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)
- Mary Hayley Bellb. 1911GBEnglish actress, writer and dramatist (1911–2005)
- Hayley Millsb. 1946GBBritish actress (born 1946)
- Hayley Wickenheiserb. 1978CACanadian ice hockey and softball player
- Hayley Atwellb. 1982GBEnglish and American actress (born 1982)
- Hayley Westenrab. 1987NZNew Zealand singer
- Hayley Williamsb. 1988USAmerican singer
- Hayley McFarlandb. 1991USAmerican actress
- Hayley Kiyokob. 1991USAmerican actress
- Hayley Hasselhoffb. 1992USAmerican actress
- Hayley Lawb. 1992CACanadian film and television actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 47K | #946 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 456 | #2,127 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 369 | #3,855 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 179 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 155 | #6,314 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 106 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2018 | 73 | #96 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2022 | 67 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 54 | #946 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2022 | 51 | #100 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2022 | 51 | — |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 41 | #316 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hayley mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Haley, from various English place-names meaning clearing where hay is made Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Hayley a male or female name?
- Hayley is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hayley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 148 thousand people named Hailey, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Hayley?
- A machine transcription gives /heɪli/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Hayley?
- In the etymology graph, Haley, Hailey and Haylee are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Hayley?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 462 people named Hayley, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Hayley compared with other names?
- In the United States, Hayley is the 652nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hayley?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hayleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Hayley” — the 652nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.