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Halim

#8,481 in 2025Boys' name

To be patient, through حَلِيم

Halim has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #8,481 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Halim, 2025

1 in 368,000

Halim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Halim: meaning, origin, and history

To be patient, through حَلِيم

Arabic

What Halim means

Halim belongs to the name family reached through Halim → حَلِيم. Its meaning is “to be patient”.

Origin, language, and formation

Halim is used in Albanian and Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Halim comes through Arabic حَلِيم.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include حَلِيم.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Halim is pronounced /ˈhalim/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 245 boys were recorded with the name Halim between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,683 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,919 in 2020 to #8,481 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,748 in 2015 to #8,481 in 2025.

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 Halim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,481
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Halim 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Halim was born before 2008 — so the typical Halim is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
245
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Halim 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
+815
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,438
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,267
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2016 (12)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,683
1981

Spellings of Halim

Halim is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 20.8% against Halim's 0.10%.

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.

Halim around the world

Where Halim 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
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1958–2025
    #1,526
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1995–2005
    #643
    in 2005

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

Halim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,481
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,438
Best rank ever
#4,683
1981
Peak year
2016
12 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
245
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Halim

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

HaldenHaleemHaltonHalidHalenHallHaloHalilElimHaleHaleyAalimHalseyHalleySelimHaloaHalstonHalvorHaldonKalimHalstenAlimHallisWillim

Sibling names for Halim

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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