Last Name HALES

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Meaning	Local: Of Hales, a parish in county Stafford, also a parish in county Norfolk, and a parish (Hales Owen) in county Worcester. Local: From a village in Gloucestershire, and also a town in Norfolk, England. In Cornish British, it signifies low, level lands washed by a river or the sea; a moor. Playfair says, "The word Hales is a compound one, being formed of the Saxon 'Hale' or 'Heile,' strong, healthy, and 'ley,' etc." Others derive it from 'Halig,' Saxon, holy.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Hungarian

Rank	4,238 (2000 US census)	4,073 (1990 US census)

Count	7,743 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

86.54%, or 6701 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
9.7%, or 751 total occurrences, as black,
0.32%, or 25 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.43%, or 33 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.46%, or 113 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.55%, or 120 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...