Hayley.
An English placename.
Meaning & usage
An English placename.
A habitational surname from Old English. (More often spelled Haley.)
A unisex given name transferred from the surname. A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the UK in the 1970s and the 1980s.
Where this word comes from
Localities in England, from Old English hēg (“hay”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hay + -ley (“lea”).
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