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 [ 2 syll. hal-ley, ha-ll-ey ] The girl name Halley is also used as a boy name, though it is slightly more popular for girls. It is pronounced HHAELiy or HHEYLiy KEY. Halley is of Germanic origin and it is used mainly in German. Halley is a pet form of the German Haralda. Halley is uncommon as a baby girl name. At the modest height of its usage in 1986, 0.018% of baby girls were named Halley. It had a ranking of #580 then. The baby name has markedly dropped in popularity since then, and is used only on a very light scale today. Within all girl names in its family, Halley was nevertheless the most frequently used in 2008. Although Halley is somewhat used more commonly as a girl name today, there was a period from 1910 to 1910 that it was more popular with boys. After 1986, increasingly the name became more popular with girls than with boys. Baby names that sound like Halley include the English Hailee, the English Hailey, the English Haili, the English Hailie, the English Hailley, the English Haily, the English Halee, the English Haleigh, the English Haley, the German Hallee, the German and English Halli, the German and English Hally, the English Haylee, the English Hayley, the English Hayli, the English Haylie, the English Haeley, the English Haeli, the English Haileigh, and the Arabic Hala. KEY: English pronunciation for Halley: HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"   |
