Haile is a surname of Ethiopian origin . name meaning "power, might." Pronounced: HY-lee.
It is very common surname in Ethiopia and throughout East Africa and diaspora .
It was second most popular surname in Eritrea followed by 13th most common in Ethiopia.
- People with the surname include
- Abeba Haile (born 1970), Eritrean singer
- Almayahu Haile (died 1977), member of the military junta that ruled Ethiopia during the Ethiopian Revolution
- Asrat Haile (fl. 2000s), former manager of the Ethiopia national football team
- Berard Haile (1874–1961), Franciscan priest
- Chanyalew Haile (born 1949), Ethiopian boxer
- Eugen Haile (1873–1933), German-American composer, singer, and accompanist
- Ferrell Haile (fl. 2000s–2010s), member of the Tennessee State Senate
- Gebremedhin Haile (fl. 2010s), Ethiopian football coach who has managed the Ethiopia national football team
- Getatchew Haile (1932–2021), Ethiopian-American philologist
- John Haile (died 1535), vicar of Isleworth Middlesex
- Joseph Haile, namesake of the Joseph Haile House in Providence, Rhode Island
- Levi Haile (died 1854), Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
- Margaret Haile (fl. 1900s), Canadian socialist
- Minasse Haile (born 1930), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia
- Mitiku Haile (born 1951) Ethiopian professor of soil science
- Sossina M. Haile (born 1966), American chemist
- Tadesse Haile (born 1952), Ethiopian boxer
- Thomas Evans Haile, namesake of the historic Haile Homestead and Haile Plantation, Florida
- William Haile (New Hampshire politician) (1807–1876), Governor of New Hampshire
- William H. Haile (1833–1901), Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
- William Haile (Mississippi politician) (1797-1837), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
- Yonatan Haile (born 1994), Eritrean cyclist
- With Haile as part of the surname
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