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Girl · Old English
Haylee
Say it: HAY-lee
Meaning
A modern spelling of Hayley, from an English surname taken from place names such as Hailey in Oxfordshire, from Old English heg 'hay' and leah 'clearing'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
One of many spellings of Hailey used in the US from the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 29,156 babies given this name since 1968
- At its height in 2009, about 1 in 1,200 girls
- 344 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Hailey, Hayley, Haley
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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