Name meaning & stats
Hayley
Hayley means “hay clearing”. 51,449 US babies since 1940, peak 1993.
What it means
“hay clearing”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1993
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)