Meaning not yet researched.
Hala: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,208 in 1887.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,208 in 1887; #2,941 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hala in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,941 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1887, at #1,208.
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Hala: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,208 in 1887 · most girls in one year: 70 (2011).
In 2025, 57 US girls were named Hala, making it the 2,941st most common girls’ name of the year, up 482 places from #3,423 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 46 girls named Hala in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,208, reached in 1887. The most girls given the name in a single year was 70, in 2011. For comparison, it was #3,363 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hala in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 5 babies. In all, 1,820 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 591 babies named Hala.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 499 US girls were named Hala; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,198 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hala ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,002 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Halla, Halah and Haila are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Halla (293), Halah (153), Haila (119), Halaya (78), Hallah (14), Haylah (6), Hailah (6), Haala (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Hala in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 7 | #1,002 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,713 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,739 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,267 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,828 | — | — |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,196 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,691 | — | — |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,284 | — | — |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,396 | — | — |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,832 | — | — |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,033 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,656 | — | — |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,847 | — | — |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,356 | — | — |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,091 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,288 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,567 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,749 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,126 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,414 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,055 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,799 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,647 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,961 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,656 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,486 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,646 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,694 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,177 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,817 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,832 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,484 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,661 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,767 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,581 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,925 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,982 | — | — |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,284 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,721 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,407 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,633 | — | — |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,551 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,208 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).