The name Halley is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "hall or woodland clearing".

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While this has a distinguished male namesake -- astronomer Edmund Halley and his comet -- it still strays too close to the superpopular feminine Hailey family to work for some parents for a boy. Fewer than five baby boys were given the name last year, but that could change as formerly-female names become more acceptable for boys.

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The name Halley is a girl's name meaning "hall or woodland clearing".

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The Halley version of this popular name family hit the Top 1000 only once, in 1986, inspired by Halley's Comet, named for astronomer Edmund Halley.
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Today, Halley is still used -- it was given to 50 baby girls last year -- but is much less popular than many other spellings of the name, which include Hailey, Haley, Hallie, and Hayley.

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