Meaning not yet researched.
Halo: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 477 in 2025. Its best rank was #513 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #513 in 2024; #613 in 2025. About 65% of babies named Halo in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#613 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #513.
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Halo: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 477 girls in 2025. Peak: #513 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 600 (2024).
In 2025, 477 US girls were named Halo, making it the 613th most common girls’ name of the year, down 100 places from #513 in 2024. That is 123 fewer than the 600 girls named Halo in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #513, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 600. For comparison, it was #1,612 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 253 US boys were named Halo, making it the 931st most common boys’ name of the year, up 57 places from #988 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 227 boys named Halo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #931, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 253. For comparison, it was #5,591 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Halo in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 7 babies. In all, 5,512 US babies have been given the name, 82% of them girls and 18% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,381 babies named Halo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,462 US girls were named Halo; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 600. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,370 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Halo ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #287 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Haylo, Hailo and Haloa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Haylo (254), Hailo (129), Haloa (15), Haelo (11).
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 Halo 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 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 17 | #287 | — |
| Ohio | 37 | #300 | #1,208 |
| Georgia | 34 | #309 | #1,596 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #312 | — |
| Arkansas | 10 | #315 | — |
| South Carolina | 13 | #386 | — |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #401 | — |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #458 | — |
| Mississippi | 6 | #462 | — |
| Maryland | 10 | #521 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #529 | #1,153 |
| Missouri | 11 | #531 | — |
| Florida | 33 | #548 | #1,397 |
| Michigan | 14 | #571 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #600 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #613 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #669 | — |
| Texas | 45 | #677 | #1,851 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #702 | — |
| California | 43 | #724 | #1,767 |
| Virginia | 9 | #797 | #1,288 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #805 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #823 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #853 | #1,144 |
| New York | 18 | #877 | #2,329 |
| Arizona | 6 | #959 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #966 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,118 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 477 | #613 | 253 | #931 |
| 2024 | 600 | #513 | 227 | #988 |
| 2023 | 526 | #565 | 124 | #1,461 |
| 2022 | 372 | #768 | 67 | #2,176 |
| 2021 | 386 | #739 | 46 | #2,747 |
| 2020 | 274 | #938 | 29 | #3,678 |
| 2019 | 274 | #962 | 30 | #3,664 |
| 2018 | 219 | #1,118 | 27 | #3,926 |
| 2017 | 153 | #1,469 | 25 | #4,153 |
| 2016 | 181 | #1,322 | 25 | #4,135 |
| 2015 | 133 | #1,612 | 16 | #5,591 |
| 2014 | 133 | #1,617 | 22 | #4,439 |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,911 | 20 | #4,687 |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,578 | 15 | #5,803 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,686 | 12 | #6,739 |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,484 | 23 | #4,283 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,812 | 18 | #5,167 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,092 | 24 | #4,181 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,407 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,262 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,048 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,898 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,934 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,223 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,256 | — | — |
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).