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Hallel

#6,638 in 2025Girls' name

Praise

Hallel has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #6,638 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Hallel, 2025

1 in 195,000

Hallel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hallel: meaning, origin, and history

Praise

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hallel means

Hallel means “praise”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 129 girls were recorded with the name Hallel between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,638 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,458 in 2020 to #6,638 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Hallel between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2025; its best national rank was #11,142 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.

How common is Hallel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,638
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hallel 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 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hallel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hallels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hallel was born before 2019 — so the typical Hallel is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
129
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Choose a decade

2020s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Hallel 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
+2,508
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,820
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (17)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,638
2025

Spellings of Hallel

Hallel is not the most common spelling — Hazel is, with 32.0% against Hallel'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.

Where Hallel is used

Across 1910–2025, Hallel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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

Hallel around the world

Where Hallel 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
    2019–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    2025–2025
    #6,141
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hallel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,638
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,820
Best rank ever
#6,638
2025
Peak year
2025
17 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
129
Count in 2025
17

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,142
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,142
2025
Peak year
2025
6 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Hallel

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

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Sibling names for Hallel

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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