Given name & surname
Hatley
“woodland clearing, glade”
Hatley is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hatley goes back to a word meaning “woodland clearing, glade.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hatley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 132
- 0 boys · 132 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,374 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −5%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,374 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 4.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2013. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 159 as a first name in 2020; 5,939 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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