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Name meaning & stats

Hayley

Hayley means “hay clearing”. 51,449 US babies since 1940, peak 1993.

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What it means

“hay clearing”

Well documented

In US birth records

Peak year: 1993

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51,449 US babies were named Hayley between 1940 and 2025.

Careers

Not enough notable people named Hayley (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.

Spelling family

1 in 5 Haileys spell it Hayley

Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.

Name twins (peaked around 1993)