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Hale

#6,580 in 2025Boys' name

House

Hale has been given to 1,296 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #6,580 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Hale, 2025

1 in 255,000

Hale over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hale: meaning, origin, and history

House

English and Arabic

What Hale means

Hale means “house”, associated with hale.

Origin, language, and formation

Hale is used in Hawaiian and Turkish. Its origins include English and Arabic.

Hale comes through English Harry.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Hale is pronounced /ˈha.le/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,282 boys were recorded with the name Hale between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1917; its best national rank was #929 in 1896.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,080 in 2020 to #6,580 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,444 in 2015 to #6,580 in 2025.

In the United States, 14 girls were recorded with the name Hale between 1998 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1998; its best national rank was #10,446 in 1998.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hale?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,580
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hale sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hale. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hales were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hale was born before 1956 — so the typical Hale is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
699
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Choose a decade

1920s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (214).

Is Hale 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
+402
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−500
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,136
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.3%
Peak was 1917 (30)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#929
1896

Spellings of Hale

Hale is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 14.5% against Hale's 0.04%.

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 Hale is used

Across 1910–2025, Hale was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 775,065 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Hale has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hale around the world

Where Hale 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
    2016–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hale by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,580
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 500
Best rank ever
#929
1896
Peak year
1917
30 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,282
Count in 2025
13

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,446
1998
Peak year
1998
8 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
14
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hale

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

HaloHallHalenHalimHaleyHalstonYaleHallieKaleCaleValeHaldenHaleemHalRoyaleGaleNealeHaltonHalbertKendaleHalseyHalidMikaleNatale

Sibling names for Hale

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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