Hallelujah
#7,255 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hallelujah has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #7,255 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Hallelujah, 2025
1 in 221,000
Hallelujah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hallelujah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,255
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hallelujah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hallelujah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hallelujahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hallelujah was born before 2019 — so the typical Hallelujah is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 48.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 190
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (92).
Is Hallelujah 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
- +114
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −823
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,967
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2021 (21)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 51.6% average annual change
Hallelujah around the world
Where Hallelujah 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 & Wales2018–2020#5,493in 2020
- Canada2023–2024#3,457in 2024
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.
Hallelujah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hallelujah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hallelujah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.