Hayley
| Pronunciation | ˈheɪli |
|---|---|
| Gender | Unisex (mainly female) |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | English |
| Region of origin | England |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Hailee, Hailey, Haley, Hali, Halie, Halley, Haylee |
Hayley (pronounced /ˈheɪli/) is an English given name.
It is derived from the English surname Haley, which in turn was based on an Old English toponym, a compound of heg "hay" and leah "clearing or meadow".[1]
While it can be used for males,[2] Hayley is most commonly a female given name. This use became popular following the surge to prominence of child actress Hayley Mills (b. 1946), but the name was not used with any frequency prior to the 1980s. Its popularity peaked in the 1980s and early 1990s in the UK and (along with variants such as Haley and Hailey) in the 1990s and 2000s in the US, but since the 2000s has again declined significantly.[1] Hayley is one of the top 1,500 female names in the US today.[3]
Women with this given name
Notable people with the given name Hayley, or variant spellings of it, include:
- Hayley Atwell (b. 1982), English actress
- Hayley Barr (b. 1971), American actress
- Hailey Baldwin (b. 1996), American model
- Mary Hayley Bell (22 January 1911 – 1 December 2005), English actress, writer, dramatist
- Hayley Beresford (b. 1978), Australian equestrian
- Hailey Clauson (b. 1995), American fashion model
- Hailey Dawson (b. 2010), American girl with 3D-printed robotic hand
- Haylie Duff (b. 1985), American actress and singer
- Hailey Duke (b. 1985), American skier
- Halley Feiffer (b. 1984), American actress and playwright
- Haley Gibby (b. 1981 or 1982), British electronic music singer
- Hayley Angel Holt (b. 1983), English actress
- Hayley Kiyoko (b. 1991), American actress
- Hailey Kops (b. 2002), Israeli pair skater
- Hayley Lewis (b. 1974), Australian swimmer
- Haley McCallum (b. 1983), also known as Haley, a Canadian-American musician
- Haley Mendez (b. 1993), American squash player
- Hayley Mills (b. 1946), English actress, daughter of Mary Hayley Bell
- Hayley Okines (1997–2015), English girl with rare aging disease
- Hayley Orrantia (b. 1994), American singer and actress
- Hayley Peirsol (b. 1985), American swimmer
- Hayley Petit (1989–2007), American murder victim
- Hayley Silver-Holmes (b. 2003), Australian cricketer
- Hayley Sproull (born 1989), New Zealand comedian, scriptwriter and television show host
- Hailee Steinfeld (b. 1996) American actress
- Hayley Tamaddon (1977), English actress
- Haley Tju (b. 2001), American teen actress
- Hayley Tullett (b. 1973), Welsh runner
- Haylee Wanstall (b. 1992), Canadian actress
- Hayley Westenra (b. 1987), New Zealand singer
- Hayley Wickenheiser (1978), Canadian ice hockey player
- Hayley Williams (b. 1988), lead singer-songwriter from Paramore
- Lee Ha-jin (b. 1988), nicknamed Haylee, Korean Go player
Men with this given name
- Haley Barbour (born 1947), American politician
- Haley Joel Osment (born 1988), American actor
- Halley Stewart (1838–1937), English businessman, journalist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician
Fictional characters with this given name
- Haley Booth in the TV series Ackley Bridge
- Haley Brooks in the TV series Criminal Minds
- Hayley Cropper in the TV series Coronation Street
- Haley Dunphy in the TV series Modern Family
- Hayley Foster in Power Rangers Ninja Steel
- Haley James Scott in the TV series One Tree Hill
- Hayley Kaplan in the game Android: Netrunner
- Haley Keller in the film Crawl
- Hayley Long in the animated series American Dragon: Jake Long
- Hayley Marshall in the TV series The Originals
- Hailey Nichol in the TV series The O.C.
- Hailey Ruthledge in Mozart in the Jungle
- Hayley Smith in the TV series American Dad!
- Hayley Smith in the TV series Home and Away
- Hayley Stark in the film Hard Candy
- Haley Starshine in the webcomic The Order of the Stick
- Hayley Steele in the TV series The Troop
- Hailey Upton in the TV series Chicago P.D.
- Hayley Vaughan Santos in the TV series All My Children
- Hayley Ziktor in Power Rangers Dino Thunder
- Hailey in the TV series The Other Kingdom
- Hayley Ferguson in the episode Freak the Freak Out on the American teen sitcom Victorious
See also
- Haley (surname)
- Halley (surname), similar but unrelated name which can have the same pronunciation
- Hailey (disambiguation)
- Halie, various characters in Greek mythology
- All pages with titles beginning with Haley
- All pages with titles beginning with Hayley
References
- ^ a b Katie Martin-Doyle, The Treasury of Baby Names, Worth Press, Cambridge 2005. ISBN 978-1-903025-11-6
- ^ Baby Name Guide
- ^ Name Statistics
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