Anglicized form of the Old English place name 'haeg-leah' meaning hay clearing; also a variant of the Irish name Healey; popularized rapidly in the US in the 1990s.
Nicknames
hale
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Peaked in the US around 2000; already feels like a marker of that generation.
The cultural moment.
Top 20 in the US from roughly 1995 to 2010; declining steadily since.