Halana
#11,279 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Halana has been given to 179 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #11,279 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Halana, 2025
1 in 414,000
Halana over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Halana?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,279
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Halana sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Halanas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Halana was born before 2007 — so the typical Halana is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 43.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 179
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Halana 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
- +1,355
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,897
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.33×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 2004 (12)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.3% average annual change
Spellings of Halana
Halana is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 10.0% against Halana'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.
Halana around the world
Where Halana 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.
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Halana by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Halana
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Halana
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.