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Hala

#2,941 in 2025Girls' name

Halo around the moon

Hala has been given to 1,820 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #2,941 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Hala, 2025

1 in 58,200

Hala over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hala: meaning, origin, and history

Halo around the moon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hala means

Hala means “halo around the moon”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,813 girls were recorded with the name Hala between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,208 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,196 in 2020 to #2,941 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,363 in 2015 to #2,941 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Hala between 1919 and 1919. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1919; its best national rank was #3,550 in 1919.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Hala?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 58,200
57 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,941
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
40,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hala sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hala was born before 2009 — so the typical Hala is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,797
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (591).

Is Hala rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+482
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+255
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+422
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.4%
Peak was 2011 (70)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,208
1887

Spellings of Hala

Hala is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 7.7% against Hala's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hala is used

Across 2016–2025, Hala was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 39,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 11,111
  2. 2Illinois1 in 16,667
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Hala around the world

Where Hala ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #863
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2013–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2025
    #2,939
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2017
    #440
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hala by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,941
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 255
Best rank ever
#1,208
1887
Peak year
2011
70 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,813
Count in 2025
57

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,550
1919
Peak year
1919
7 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1919
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hala

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hala

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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