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PRONOUNCIATION
Hailey ( HAY-lee)

POPULARITY
Hailey is a young, bouyant,happy sounding name that is enjoying popularity around the world. It is most often heard in English speaking countries.

GENDER
Hailey is the 25th most popular girl's name of 2006 according to the US SSA.
It is at number 7 in Canada.
It is rarely used as a boy's name.
It may also be a surname.

ORIGIN

1.Old English-meaning from the hay clearing
2.Scandanavian-meaning heroine

NAME VARIANTS:
Haley,Hailee,Haile,Ha elee,Hayleigh, Haylee, Hailie, Halie, Haille

NAMESAKES:
There are Haileys on television-
The OC
One Tree Hill
Coronation Street.

Hailey is a character on "Down Gilead Lane" a Christian radio drama series.
Controversial rapper Eminem wrote a song named for his daughter called Hailie's Song.

PLACES:
Mount Haley Township, Michigan
Hailey, Idaho
Hailey, Witney in the United Kingdom.

FAMOUS PERSONS:
Hayley Mills, English actress
Alex Haley, African American author of Roots
Bill Haley, American 50's singer
Arthur Hailey, author of Airport
Haylie Duff, American actress
Hailey Abbot, author of Next Summer
Haley Joel Osment, American actor
Hailey North is an American author of Pillow Talk
Haile Gebre Selassie is an Ethipian runner
Hayley Westerna a singer for Celtic Woman
Hayley Atwell, English actress

OPINIONS OF THIS NAME
A recent Yahoo Answers baby name poll included these comments:
"a pretty name, but trendy and common right now"
"I love it -it's cute" "Very cute"
A teacher commented that there were more than one child with this name in her class.
However, there were no negative resposes to the name.

In a second Yahoo Answers poll where moms of girls named Hailey were asked if their daughter's liked their name, two moms responded and said they loved it.

I think that most people still connect this name first with Hayley Mills.
Hayley Mills was a towheaded English child actress in the sixties and seventies.
Fun, happy and adventureous she starred in many wonderful Disney movies including The Moon Spinners and The Parent Trap.

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