Meaning not yet researched.
Halle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 491 in 2025. Its best rank was #316 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #316 in 2002; #596 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Halle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#596 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #316.
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Halle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 491 girls in 2025. Peak: #316 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 971 (2002).
In 2025, 491 US girls were named Halle, making it the 596th most common girls’ name of the year, down 24 places from #572 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 530 girls named Halle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #316, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 971. For comparison, it was #909 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Halle in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 16,657 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 7,122 babies named Halle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,751 US girls were named Halle; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 530. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Halle ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #146 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hal (16,796 babies since 1880), Hayle (1,526 babies since 1880) and Haile (1,073 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Haille are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Haille (323).
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 Halle 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 8 | #146 | — |
| Iowa | 15 | #238 | #483 |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #281 | #781 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #309 | — |
| Indiana | 19 | #364 | #595 |
| Oregon | 10 | #369 | #614 |
| Kansas | 9 | #377 | #559 |
| Utah | 11 | #396 | #348 |
| Washington | 18 | #399 | #570 |
| Ohio | 28 | #406 | #636 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #426 | #667 |
| Idaho | 5 | #436 | — |
| Minnesota | 12 | #438 | #491 |
| Colorado | 13 | #438 | #647 |
| Alabama | 11 | #452 | — |
| Tennessee | 16 | #486 | #450 |
| Virginia | 16 | #497 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #528 | #1,152 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #536 | #804 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #549 | #1,144 |
| Nevada | 5 | #554 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #561 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #568 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #570 | #441 |
| Illinois | 16 | #604 | #944 |
| Michigan | 13 | #609 | #1,352 |
| Arizona | 9 | #711 | #1,161 |
| Texas | 41 | #732 | #1,044 |
| Florida | 22 | #745 | #1,294 |
| Missouri | 7 | #763 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #818 | #924 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #927 | #773 |
| New York | 15 | #999 | #1,839 |
| California | 25 | #1,063 | #1,356 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 491 | #596 | — | — |
| 2024 | 530 | #572 | — | — |
| 2023 | 425 | #686 | — | — |
| 2022 | 415 | #709 | — | — |
| 2021 | 392 | #729 | — | — |
| 2020 | 313 | #862 | — | — |
| 2019 | 330 | #825 | — | — |
| 2018 | 301 | #896 | — | — |
| 2017 | 276 | #959 | — | — |
| 2016 | 278 | #969 | — | — |
| 2015 | 302 | #909 | — | — |
| 2014 | 363 | #772 | — | — |
| 2013 | 407 | #695 | — | — |
| 2012 | 449 | #637 | — | — |
| 2011 | 467 | #621 | — | — |
| 2010 | 529 | #552 | — | — |
| 2009 | 549 | #557 | — | — |
| 2008 | 620 | #502 | — | — |
| 2007 | 618 | #513 | — | — |
| 2006 | 626 | #492 | — | — |
| 2005 | 735 | #421 | — | — |
| 2004 | 801 | #387 | 6 | #10,433 |
| 2003 | 919 | #338 | — | — |
| 2002 | 971 | #316 | — | — |
| 2001 | 638 | #437 | — | — |
| 2000 | 639 | #442 | — | — |
| 1999 | 585 | #454 | — | — |
| 1998 | 430 | #570 | — | — |
| 1997 | 372 | #610 | — | — |
| 1996 | 378 | #605 | — | — |
| 1995 | 306 | #695 | — | — |
| 1994 | 298 | #703 | — | — |
| 1993 | 286 | #735 | — | — |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,132 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,663 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,350 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,214 | — | — |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,339 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,319 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,602 | — | — |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,807 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,197 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,580 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,496 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,737 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,486 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,298 | — | — |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,843 | — | — |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,922 | — | — |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,989 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,277 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,122 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,018 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,933 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,709 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,077 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,658 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,139 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,548 | — | — |
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).