Home › Baby Names Directory › Hailley

Hailley

♀ Girl

Pronounced HAY-lee /ˈheɪ.li/High

Meaning: Hailley is an ornate spelling of Hailey, from the Old English hēg ('hay') and lēah ('wood, clearing, meadow') — 'hay meadow'. It rode the enormous turn-of-the-millennium fashion for Hailey and its many respellings.Medium

In 30 seconds: Hailley is a doubled-letter spelling of Hailey, meaning 'hay meadow' (said HAY-lee). It rose with the Hailey boom, peaking in 2000.

💕 Browse more names

Origin MediumOld English

MeaningHailley is an ornate spelling of Hailey, from the Old English hēg ('hay') and lēah ('wood, clearing, meadow') — 'hay meadow'. It rode the enormous turn-of-the-millennium fashion for Hailey and its many respellings.

U.S. rank (2022)#16170 ↘ Falling

2022 U.S. births5 girls (0.00% of U.S. girls)

Peak year2000

Total births (all-time)≈ 455

Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data

U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.

SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.

History & Origin

Hailley is an elaborated spelling of Hailey, an English place and surname name from the Old English words for 'hay' and 'meadow' — the clearing where hay was cut. Once a rare surname, Hailey surged into fashion for girls in the 1990s, and its simple sound spawned a remarkable spread of spellings. The doubled l and e of Hailley made one family's version stand slightly apart.

The spelling appears in the U.S. record from the mid-1980s and reached its small peak in 2000, at the height of the Hailey wave, before easing off. A Hailley from that peak is now in her mid-twenties. It never rose beyond rarity — the tidier Hailey and Haylee carried the crowd — so Hailley reads as one of many boutique spellings of a defining name of its era.

Did you know? Hailey was one of the fastest-rising girls' names of the late 1990s, and spellings like Hailley — Hailey, Haylee, Hayley, Haylie — multiplied as parents raced to make the sound their own.

Overall data confidence 55%

References — Hailley — Elaboration of Hailey, Old English 'hay meadow'

Variations

HaileyHayleeHayleyHaylie

Nicknames

HailLeeHay

Famous Bearers

Famous bearers coming soon.

If you like Hailley…

Hailey— the mainstream parent spelling Hailley elaborates

Haylee— a same-era phonetic respelling

Hayley— the British-style spelling of the name

Kailey— a rhyming -ailey/-ailee name of the generation

Explore names like Hailley

By themevariant old-english 2000s

All themes →All meanings →All origins →

Frequently Asked

What does the name Hailley mean?

Hailley is an ornate spelling of Hailey, from Old English words meaning 'hay meadow'.

How do you pronounce Hailley?

It's said HAY-lee /ˈheɪ.li/ — two syllables, stress on the first.

Is Hailley a boy or girl name?

Hailley is used as a girl's name.

How popular is Hailley?

Hailley has always been rare in the U.S., a boutique spelling of the popular Hailey.