Hall

#10,042 in 2025Boys' name

Manor, hall

Hall has been given to 877 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #10,042 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Hall, 2025

1 in 474,000

Hall over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hall: meaning, origin, and history

Manor, hall

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hall means

Hall means “manor, hall”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 877 boys were recorded with the name Hall between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1918; its best national rank was #817 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,736 in 2020 to #10,042 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Hall?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 244,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #10,042; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hall 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hall. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hall was born before 1931 — so the typical Hall is around 94 today.

Median birth year: 1931; About 94 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 8.9%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 224; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (189).

Is Hall 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: +1,368; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +2,694; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 21.2%; Peak was 1918 (33)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #817; 1881

Spellings of Hall

Hall is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 43.3% against Hall's 0.03%.

Paul43.3%1,398,293
Carl15.6%504,827
Earl9.0%289,174
Dale8.6%278,156
Bill5.0%160,474
Karl3.1%100,836
Raul2.7%88,040
Gael1.5%49,079

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 Hall is used

Across 1910–2025, Hall was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 384,746 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in —
2North Carolina1 in —
3Tennessee1 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. Hall has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hall by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #10,042
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 2,694
Best rank ever: #817; 1881
Peak year: 1918; 33 that year
First recorded: 1881
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 877
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Hall

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

Halo Hale Halen Halim Haley Halston Halden Haleem Conall Niall Lyall Hallie Halton Jamall Halsey Halid Hal Halbert Halil Kimball Wendall Mccall Halley Haloa

Sibling names for Hall

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

For a sister

Lida Albina Garnet Maudie Leta Lona Adell Edythe

For a brother

Regis Winfield Granville Lyman Trinidad Alva Vern Waldo

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