Popularity of the last name by country
Belgium
- Antwerpen (88)
- West-Vlaanderen (75)
- Liège (46)
- Bruxelles-Capitale | Brussel-Hoofdstad (38)
- Hainaut (37)
- Oost-Vlaanderen (30)
- Luxembourg (24)
- Namur (11)
- Vlaams-Brabant (7)
- Limburg (2)
- Brabant wallon (1)
All countries
- United States (183,997)
- United Kingdom (134,237)
- France (22,792)
- Ireland (10,590)
- Unknown country (4,689)
- Canada (4,343)
- New Zealand (3,700)
- Australia (3,649)
- Netherlands (996)
- Norway (746)
- Germany (602)
- Belgium (423)
- Italy (381)
- Austria (365)
- Sweden (285)
- Mexico (273)
- Denmark (242)
- Spain (229)
- India (155)
- Colombia (149)
- Switzerland (128)
- China (126)
- Turkey (123)
- Jamaica (104)
- Poland (102)
- Philippines (100)
- Argentina (85)
- Russian Federation (84)
- Egypt (81)
- Lebanon (79)
- Cuba (73)
- Portugal (68)
- Greece (60)
- Peru (57)
- Brazil (55)
- Hungary (55)
- Luxembourg (53)
- Finland (51)
- Israel (35)
- Paraguay (32)
Origine of last name
HALE : 1: English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land from Old English and Middle English hale dative of h(e)alh ‘nook hollow’ or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire Hampshire Lancashire Lincolnshire Holme Hale (Norfolk) Hale Street (Kent) and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river typically one deposited in a bend. See <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Haugh">Haugh</a>. In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form which would originally have been preceded by a preposition e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.2: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/McHale">McHale</a>).3: Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Halle">Halle</a>.4: Americanized form of Norwegian <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Hole">Hole</a>.
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