Haze is an English word name that means "haze" or "light mist", and it also works as a clipped form of Hayes, an English surname for someone who lived by a hedged enclosure. It belongs to the recent wave of short, atmospheric names like Jett and Stone. In the United States Haze ranked number 3263 for boys in 2015, climbed to a best rank of number 1381 in 2023 and stands at number 1429 in 2025.