Hales Family History
Hales Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hales Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hales families
 59 - 115  20 - 58 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hales families
|
468 - 933 157 - 467 |
1 - 156 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hales families
|
13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hales Family Origin
Hales Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Hales
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Hales Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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