Last name: HALES
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Last name frequency
HALES : This last name is indexed 123,344 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HALES : 1: English (widespread especially in the southeast): from the genitive singular or nominative plural form of Old English halh ‘nook recess’ (see Hale).2: Irish: when not of English origin this may be a variant of Healy or McHale.
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