Hailey took flight in the 1990s and never really came down. It is one of several modern spellings of Hayley, which in turn is an English surname drawn from the Old English heg and leah, hay meadow. The actress Hayley Mills made the name famous in 1960; American parents then began reworking the spelling through the alphabet, Haley, Hayley, Hailey, Haylee. The Hailey version now sits just inside the top 100 for girls. The sound is bright and sporty, two syllables on a sunlit breeze. The name reads as cheerful, outgoing, California in temperament if not geography, entirely of its generation.
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1880 to today
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- Lucia
- Cora
- Lydia
- Sarah
- Anna
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