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Hayley

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈheɪli//

An English placename.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An English placename.

  2. 2

    A habitational surname from Old English. (More often spelled Haley.)

  3. 3

    A unisex given name transferred from the surname. A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.

  4. 4

    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.

Etymology

Localities in England, from Old English hēg (“hay”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hay + -ley (“lea”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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