Opinions on Hayley?

[FlowerMax]

Thanks...

Mmmm - not my cup of tea.

But why come on Baby names if you don't want to hear strong opinions?

Sorry agree - chavvy. Bit like Sharon or Tracey.

Female equivalent of Jayden!

I like Hayley

I met one who was in my year at school (25 now) and she was lovely.

Horrific,ugly, chavvy is not a strong opinion it is just plain nasty (and snooty)

My daughter is called Hayley. She is beautiful, intelligent, doesn't wear Lonsdale socks and is also a wonderful mother

I'm a Hayleigh, I've always had compliments on the way my name is spelt. The only nickname I've ever been called is hayls (and still am called, hence the username). I do agree with other posters that Hallie / Halle is probably a more modern version of the name. When I've been looking at baby names Hallie is really popular in America, top 10 or 20 I seem to remember.

DS has a bit of a "dated" name (and not in a classic old man type name) I love it, it really suits him and I much prefer it to the trend of Alfred, Arthur, Henry. I love the fact that he has a name no one else in school does but not in a try hard, look how "out there" I am type of way.

I think Hayley, Claire, Sarah, Rachel type names will be making a come back.

In a forum that should be welcoming and supportive using the term Chavvy is completely not OK with me. Writing off a whole section of society because of their perceived social status is the worst sort of British bigotry - In a country where the divide between the have's and the have nots is ever growing it seems tantamount to racism to me. Lets be better than that!

I live and teach in the USA where I hear the name Hayley a bit more often than I did in the UK - It's not something I would choose personally but I can see the attraction of it - both the Hayley's I currently teach are brilliant kids!

My best friend growing up was named Hayley, she's now in her 20s (if she had been a boy, it would have been Hayden).

She was very intelligent, quiet, polite and well-behaved, if a little bit over-sensitive. But because of this, I don't see the 'chavvy' side that everyone else does.

She occasionally got the nickname Hayles or even Hail-stone! (both of which she hated, so only went by Hayley)

Although she liked her nsme, she said that even her extended family often got the spelling wrong (Hayley, Haley, Halley, Hailey, Hayleigh, Haileigh, etc)

I like it. I went to school with a bitchy Haley but recently worked with a really nice Hayley. What about Hallie?

monkeywithacowface I want to know the name you are talking about now. Interestingly in 1999 I went out with an Alf (Alfred) and he got ribbed all the time for his name. I think it suited him and not in an old man kind of way. He disliked it so much his work colleagues called him by his middle name so much confusion ensued when they met me. Anyway Alfie then became really popular. Even one of my friends named their son Alfie which made me laugh as her and her husband laughed at me going out with one!

Funnily enough I knew a young lad called Alf in the 90's. Much prefer Alf to Alfie. I think I would totally out myself if I told you DS's name!

These different responses are really interesting. To me, naming your baby Hayley would be like naming her Doreen or Tracy. Not just slightly dated, but seriously off the blinking radar. Plus where I live it would be pronounced without the H. But it just be a region thing if some here are saying it's nice.

God Monkey it's not my ex is it?

I really don't like names that aren't spelt the way they're meant to be spelt just to make them look different. Like Hayley being spelt like Kayleigh! My dd goes to nursery with a Maddyson! Give me strength!

Hope not he was only about 6 at the time

Ha ha. He was 24 in 1999! I was only 18.

I know a couple under 40.

navy I'm a hayleigh in my mid 20's I also know a Hayley who is a teenager