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Halla

Girls' name

Possibly flat stone, hill

Halla has been given to 293 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Halla, 2012

1 in 523,000

Halla over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Halla: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly flat stone, hill

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Halla means

Halla may mean “flat stone, hill”, associated with hallr.

Origin, language, and formation

Halla is used in Finnish and Icelandic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hallr.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Halla is pronounced /ˈhɑlːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 293 girls were recorded with the name Halla between 1987 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,889 in 1997.

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 Halla?

Halla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 523,000
7 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 252,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
362,179 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Halla 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 2012 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 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hallas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Halla was born before 2000 — so the typical Halla is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
293
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.1% of all recorded uses (135).

Is Halla 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (21)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,889
1997

Spellings of Halla

Halla is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 10.8% against Halla's <0.01%.

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.

Halla around the world

Where Halla 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
    2001–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1982–1993
    #3,439
    in 1993
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #671
    in 1985

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

Halla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,889
1997
Peak year
1997
21 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
293
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Halla

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

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Sibling names for Halla

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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