Hayes is a surname with a president attached, Rutherford B. Hayes, the nineteenth who quietly ended Reconstruction, and the word traces to the Old English hoes, meaning "hedged enclosure" or "brushwood." As a first name it is young, sharp, and Southern-leaning, riding the same wave that brought Brooks, Banks, and Graves into nurseries. Hayes entered the U.S. charts meaningfully only after 2010 and has climbed to the top 160s. One clipped syllable, the long a, a breath of s at the end. It is a name that reads well on a business card and sounds even better shouted across a backyard.
Popularity
1880 to today
US SSA data. Lower rank number means more popular. A flat line at the top of the chart means the name did not rank in the top 1000.
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Middle name ideas
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Sibling name ideas
- Jett
- Cole
- Jude
- Ace
- Jayce
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- Jett
- Cole
- Jude
- Ace
- Jayce
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Jude
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Ace
Rising· boy
From Latin as, 'one'; highest card in the deck
Jayce
Falling· boy
Modern respelling of Jace, short for Greek Jason, 'healer'