Hail Family History
Hail Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English Older Scots heil hail ‘healthy’ or ‘health’ (Old Norse heill ‘healthy’). This surname may well have become confused with the much more frequent Hale or especially in Gloucestershire with Hailes . Alternatively in some cases the name may derive from the Old English personal name Hægel from hægel ‘hail(stones)’ which may have survived into Middle English. South German: variant of Heil .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022