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Origin: British

Meaning: hero; from the hall

Encourage your little guy to be his own hero with this Old English name. Hale, in addition to meaning "hero," also means "from the hall." Before being used as a first name, Hale was a surname that referred to someone living in a nook—a halh in Old English. It's perhaps most well known as the surname of revolutionary war hero Nathan Hale, who took the meaning to heart.