Hales

Hales is the 4,206th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,157 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,600.

By the numbers

People: 8,157
Rank: 4,206th
How common: 1 in 36,600
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English halh (“hollow, nook”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hales described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.3%
Black, not Hispanic 9.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hales

Stephen Hales (1677–1761)British scientist
Nathan Hales (born 1996)British sport shooter

People named Hales with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hales

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.