Healey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person from Healey near Manchester, 'high woodland clearing'; (ii) from Irish Gaelic O hEilidhe or O hEalaighthe (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Healey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 10,370 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Healey is also written ฮลเลย in Thai.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.7K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 8.8Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Healey itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 403 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
10,370 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Healey in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Healeynear(measured from records)
- Irish GaelicO(measured from records)
(i) person from Healey near Manchester, 'high woodland clearing'; (ii) from Irish Gaelic O hEilidhe or O hEalaighthe.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Healey is found
(measured from records)Healey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,370 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Healey | 403 |
| GB United Kingdom | #844 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 3 | Healey | 235 |
| AU Australia | #729 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 2 | Healey | 175 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Healey | 156 |
| GY Guyana | — | 777as Halley | 1 in 966 | 777 | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | #727 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Healey | 94 |
| JM Jamaica | #691 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Healey | 2 |
| GD Grenada | — | 10as Halley | 1 in 11K | 10 | — | 1 |
10,370 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Healey is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From Healey (Lancashire, Nb, North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire), Heeley (West Riding of Yorkshire), or Healaugh (North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire); first attested John de Hely 1284 AssLa.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, habitational name from Healey near Manchester, named with Old English heah ‘high’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. There are various other places in northern England, for example in Northumberland and Yorkshire, with the same name and etymology, and they may also have contributed to the surname.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Denis Healeyb. 1917GBBritish politician (1917–2015)
- John Healeyb. 1960GBBritish politician (born 1960)
- Maura Healeyb. 1971US73rd governor of Massachusetts (born 1971)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Healey mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person from Healey near Manchester, 'high woodland clearing'; (ii) from Irish Gaelic O hEilidhe or O hEalaighthe. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Healey?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Healey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled healey. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Guyana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Healey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,370 people named Healey in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Healey compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Healey is the 691st most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/healeyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Healey” — ranked 3186th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.