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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (widespread, especially in the southeast) : from the genitive singular or nominative plural form of Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’ (see Hale).
  • Irish : when not of English origin, this may be a variant of Healy or McHale.

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