Haile (surname)
Haile is a surname of Geez origin. The name meaning "power, might." Pronounced: HY-lee.
It is very common surname in Eritrea and 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, Eritrean singer
- Almayahu Haile, member of the military junta that ruled Ethiopia during the Ethiopian Revolution
- Asrat Haile, former manager of the Ethiopia national football team
- Berard Haile, Franciscan priest
- Chanyalew Haile, Ethiopian boxer
- Eugen Haile, German-American composer, singer, and accompanist
- Ferrell Haile, member of the Tennessee State Senate
- Gebremedhin Haile, Ethiopian football coach who has managed the Ethiopia national football team
- Getatchew Haile, Ethiopian-American philologist
- John Haile, vicar of Isleworth Middlesex
- Joseph Haile, namesake of the Joseph Haile House in Providence, Rhode Island
- Levi Haile, Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
- Margaret Haile, Canadian socialist
- Minasse Haile, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia
- Mitiku Haile Ethiopian professor of soil science
- Sossina M. Haile, American chemist
- Tadesse Haile, Ethiopian boxer
- Thomas Evans Haile, namesake of the historic Haile Homestead and Haile Plantation, Florida
- William Haile (New Hampshire politician), Governor of New Hampshire
- William H. Haile, Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
- William Haile (Mississippi politician), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
- Yonatan Haile, Eritrean cyclist
- Yemane Haileselassie, Eritrean steeplechase runner
- Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Ethiopian paleoanthropologist