Hayley is a given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

. It was adopted from the English surname

Haley (surname)

-People with the surname Hailey:*Arthur Hailey, British/Canadian novelist*Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, R&B singer, member of K-Ci and JoJo*Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, American journalist and playwright*Homer Hailey, American preacher...

, which is based on a place name derived from Old English heg "hay" and ley "clearing or meadow", but many sources accept that it was also separately derived from the Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

 word haela meaning "hero". While it can be used for males, Hayley is most commonly a female given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

. This use became popular due to actress Hayley Mills

Hayley Mills

Hayley Mills is an English actress. The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Tiger Bay , the Academy Juvenile Award...

' celebrity, resulting in Hayley becoming one of the top 1500 female names in the US

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 today.

There are many variations of Hayley, including Haeli, Haelli, Hailee, Hailey, Haylie, Hailie, Hailly, Halee, Haleigh, Haley, Hali

Hali

Hali may refer to:*Hali I of the Maldives, the Sultan of Maldives from 1266 to 1268*Hali II of the Maldives, the Sultan of Maldives from 1278 to 1288*a medieval Latinisation of Arabic Ali...

, Halie

Halie

Halie or Halia is the name of the following characters in Greek mythology:* Halie, one of the Nereids, daughter of Nereus and Doris...

, Haliey, Halii, Halley, Haly, Haylea, Haylee, Hayly and Hayleigh.

Actors

• Hayley Angel Wardle
  Hayley Angel Wardle
  Hayley Angel Wardle is an actress born in London, England.She spent the formative years of her childhood growing up in the South Bank area.-Early life:...
  
  , English actress
• Hayley Atwell, English actress
• Hayley Barr
  Hayley Barr
  Hayley Barr is an American actress.Hayley is known for several soap opera roles and as playing herself in Looking for Richard. She has had three Soap Opera Digest award nominations in 1991, 1992, and 1993.-Filmography:...
  
  , American actress
• Hayley Bishop
  Hayley Bishop
  Hayley Bishop is an English actress. Her best-known role was Kelly the barmaid in the BBC Three comedy series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, which has run since 2001....
  
  , English actress
• Hayley Carmichael
  Hayley Carmichael
  Hayley Carmichael is an English actress and theatre-director. She is co-founder of Told By An Idiot and has both devised and performed in almost all their productions...
  
  , English actress, theatre director
• Haylie Duff
  Haylie Duff
  Haylie Katherine Duff is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is the older sister of actress and singer Hilary Duff...
  
  , American actress
• Haley Joel Osment
  Haley Joel Osment
  Haley Joel Osment is an American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing Tom Hanks' title character’s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M...
  
  , Academy Award-nominated American actor
• Haley McCormick
  Haley McCormick
  Haley McCormick is an American film and television actress.- Filmography :*2005 - Urban Legends: Bloody Mary*2004 - Halloweentown High*2002 - Everwood*2001 - Little Secrets*2001 - The Poof Point...
  
  , American actress
• Hayley Mills
  Hayley Mills
  Hayley Mills is an English actress. The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Tiger Bay , the Academy Juvenile Award...
  
  , English actress
• Hailey Anne Nelson
  Hailey Anne Nelson
  Hailey Anne Nelson is an American actress.-Career:After commencing her career at age 5 in various stage performances, Nelson starred in the Tim Burton film Big Fish as Jenny , alongside Ewan McGregor, Danny DeVito, Steve Buscemi, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, and Miley Cyrus...
  
  , American child actress
• Haley Paige
  Haley Paige
  Maryam Irene Haley , better known by her stage name Haley Paige, was a Mexican-born American pornographic actress.- Career:...
  
  , American pornographic actress
• Haley Ramm
  Haley Ramm
  Haley Michelle Ramm is an American actress. She played a young Jean Grey in X-Men: The Last Stand and appeared in multiple episodes of the CBS drama Without a Trace throughout 2007 and 2008.-Early life:...
  
  , American actress
• Hailee Steinfeld
  Hailee Steinfeld
  Hailee Steinfeld is an American actress. She rose to fame for her portrayal as Mattie Ross in the 2010 film True Grit, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.-Early life:Steinfeld was born in Tarzana, Los...
  
  , American actress
• Hayley Tamaddon
  Hayley Tamaddon
  Hayley Tamaddon , is an English actress of Iranian descent, who is most notable for portraying Delilah Dingle in ITV's Emmerdale and winning ITV's Dancing on Ice on 28 March 2010.-Background:...
  
  , English actress
• Mary Hayley Bell
  Mary Hayley Bell
  Mary Hayley Bell, Lady Mills was an English actress, writer and dramatist.Mary Hayley Bell was born in Shanghai, China, where her father served in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and the family later moved to Tianjin . It was there that she first met John Mills, although exactly when is not...
  
  , English actress, writer, dramatist

Athletes

• Hayley Lewis
  Hayley Lewis
  Hayley Jane Lewis is a retired Australian swimmer best known for winning five gold medals and one bronze at the 1990 Commonwealth Games as a 15-year-old....
  
  , Australian swimmer
• Hayley Peirsol
  Hayley Peirsol
  Hayley Reide Peirsol is an American long-distance swimmer. She swam under Brent Lorenzen with Irvine Novaquatics prior to attending Auburn University. She has also trained with Club Wolverine at the University of Michigan under Bob Bowman. Hayley was the third woman in history to ever break 16...
  
  , American swimmer
• Hayley Wickenheiser
  Hayley Wickenheiser
  Hayley Wickenheiser is a women's ice hockey player from Canada. She was the first woman to play full time professional hockey in a position other than goalie. Wickenheiser is a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team...
  
  , Canadian ice hockey player
• Hayley Tullett
  Hayley Tullett
  Hayley Tullett is a Welsh middle distance runner mainly competing over 1500 metres. Her main claim to fame is the bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships...
  
  , Welsh runner
• Haley Cope
  Haley Cope
  Haley Clark is a retired American swimmer. She won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, eight world championship medals, and held a world record in the 50 metre backstroke....
  
  , American swimmer

Musicians

• Hayley Aitken
  Hayley Aitken
  Hayley Michelle Aitken is an Australian singer-songwriter. Her debut album Watching TV was pushed back several times, due to the sale of Zomba records to BMG Records, currently unreleased...
  
  , Australian singer-songwriter
• Hayley Sanderson
  Hayley Sanderson
  Hayley Sanderson is a London-based singer and saxophonist who rose to fame with the release of her debut single Something in the Air. The song was originally a #1 hit in the summer of 1969 for Thunderclap Newman. The song had been chosen by British telecommunications company TalkTalk to advertise...
  
  , English singer
• Hayley Taylor
  Hayley Taylor
  Hayley Taylor is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and painter from Los Angeles, California.-Biography:Born in Michigan and raised in Los Angeles, Taylor began performing at a young age, making her musical debut at the age of three roller skating and singing on the Jerry Lewis Telethon .She...
  
  , American singer-songwriter, actress
• Hayley Westenra
  Hayley Westenra
  Hayley Dee Westenra is a New Zealand soprano, classical crossover artist, songwriter and UNICEF Ambassador. Her first internationally released album, Pure, reached No. 1 on the UK classical charts in 2003 and has sold more than two million copies worldwide...
  
  , New Zealand singer
• Hayley Williams
  Hayley Williams
  Hayley Nichole Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist of the band Paramore.- Life and career :...
  
  , lead singer-songwriter from Paramore
  Paramore
  Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band consists of lead vocalist Hayley Williams, bassist Jeremy Davis, and guitarist Taylor York...
  
  
• Hayley Kiyoko
  Hayley Kiyoko
  Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft , known professionally as Hayley Kiyoko, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, musician, and dancer...
  
  , American entertainer and member of The Stunners
• Hayley Legg
  Hayley Legg
  Hayley Legg-Biography:Hayley lives in Sydney, Australia. She spent a majority of her youth learning Beatles songs on the piano and when High School hit she quickly turned to playing the guitar, claiming she needed an instrument she could carry...
  
  , Australian singer-songwriter
• Haley Reinhart
  Haley Reinhart
  Haley Reinhart is an American singer from Wheeling, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois who placed third in the tenth season of American Idol. Reinhart is currently signed to 19 and Interscope Records.-Early life:...
  
  , American singer

Reality TV entertainers

• Hayley Jensen
  Hayley Jensen
  Hayley Jensen is an Australian singer and songwriter who became well known after appearing on the second series of Australian Idol. She was the fourth finalist, leaving the show on 1 November...
  
  , Australian Idol 2
• Haley Scarnato
  Haley Scarnato
  Haley Suzanne Scarnato is an American singer who was the 8th-place finalist on the sixth season of American Idol. Scarnato announced in an interview in November 2009, her album Strongheart was scrapped after she left her management, but is working on a new album and "Strongheart" was her old...
  
  , American Idol 6
• Hayley Bloxham, 2013 Real Housewives of OC
• Hayley Wilkins, Britain's Next Top Model 1
  Britain's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
  Britain's Next Top Model, Cycle 1 was the first series of Britain's Next Top Model and it was broadcast on LIVINGtv.The international destination of the series was Milan, Italy...
  
  
• Hayley Buchanan, Britain's Next Top Model 5
  Britain's Next Top Model, Cycle 5
  Britain's Next Top Model, Cycle 5 is the fifth cycle of Britain's Next Top Model and the fifth cycle to air on Living. With an increased budget, Cycle 5 claims to be "bigger, better and more high-fashion than ever before."...
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Haley Barbour
  Haley Barbour
  Haley Reeves Barbour is an American Republican politician currently serving as the 63rd Governor of Mississippi. He gained a national spotlight in August 2005 after Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina. Barbour won re-election as Governor in 2007...
  
  , American politician
• Hayley Chapman
  Hayley Chapman
  Hayley Chapman was born in Perth, Western Australia and is an on-air TV presenter and producer.She completed a Communications degree majoring in Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney before setting out on her quest to work on television...
  
  , Australian television presenter
• Hayley McQueen
  Hayley McQueen
  Hayley McQueen is a TV sports presenter and reporter and RTS award winning producer. She is a presenter on Sky Sports News....
  
  , British television presenter
• Hayley Okines
  Hayley Okines
  Hayley Okines is an English girl with the rare aging disease progeria who is known for spreading awareness of the condition.Diagnosed in 1999, Okines was born with progeria, a genetic disease that causes her to age eight times faster than the average person. This puts her projected lifespan to age...
  
  , progeria activist
• Hayley Rosenblum
  Hayley Rosenblum
  Hayley Rosenblum is a former Public Relations Director for WHRW.-Show:She was co-host and co-creator of a radio show called Penguins in the Desert with listeners world wide...
  
  , American radio presenter

Fictional characters with the given name

• Hayley Cropper
  Hayley Cropper
  Hayley Anne Cropper is a fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street...
  
  , Coronation Street
• Hailey Nichol
  Hailey Nichol
  Hailey Nichol is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C., portrayed by Amanda Righetti. Seen as something of a black sheep of the family, Hailey is the younger daughter of Caleb and Rose Nichol, younger sister to Kirsten Cohen, and older half-sister to Lindsay Gardner...
  
  , The O.C.
• Haley James Scott
  Haley James Scott
  Haley Bob James Scott is a fictional character on The CW television series One Tree Hill, portrayed by Bethany Joy Galeotti. Haley is initially introduced as Lucas Scott's best friend and eventual sister-in-law after her marriage to Nathan Scott in her junior year of high school...
  
  , One Tree Hill
• Hayley Smith, American Dad
• Hayley Smith
  Hayley Smith (Home and Away)
  Hayley Rose Hunter is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away. She was portrayed from September 1998 to September 2005 by actress Bec Cartwright and from September to November 2005 by Ella Scott Lynch, after Cartwright left the show for personal...
  
  , Home and Away
• Hayley Stark, Hard Candy
  Hard Candy (film)
  Hard Candy is a 2005 psychological thriller film focusing on the confrontation between an assumed sexual predator and a not-so-innocent 14-year-old girl....
  
  
• Haley Starshine, The Order of the Stick
• Hayley Steele, The Troop
  The Troop
  The Troop is an American-Canadian live-action, single camera comedy-adventure television series about a trio of teenagers who fight and capture monsters and other supernatural phenomena that invade the fictional town of Lakewood...
  
  
• Hayley Vaughan Santos, All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  
• Haley Graham, Stick It
  Stick It
  Stick It is an American teen comedy-drama film starring Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, and Vanessa Lengies. It was written and directed by Jessica Bendinger, writer of Bring It On; the film marks her directorial debut...
  
  
• Haley Dunphy, Modern Family

See also

• Haley (surname)
  Haley (surname)
  -People with the surname Hailey:*Arthur Hailey, British/Canadian novelist*Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, R&B singer, member of K-Ci and JoJo*Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, American journalist and playwright*Homer Hailey, American preacher...
  
  
• Halie
  Halie
  Halie or Halia is the name of the following characters in Greek mythology:* Halie, one of the Nereids, daughter of Nereus and Doris...
  
  , the name of two characters in Greek mythology