Hale

Where Hale comes from

Hale hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,066 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #900
    7 babies named Hale — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1905
    Hale Asaf born
    Turkish painter
  5. 1986
    Hale Appleman born
    American actor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hale Asaf · Turkish painter, 1905–1938
  • Hale Appleman · American actor, born 1986
  • Hale Hamilton · American actor, 1883–1942
  • Hale Irwin · American golfer, born 1945
  • Hale Soygazi · Turkish actress, born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.