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Hally

#6,190 in 2025Girls' name

Home + king, through Hallie

Hally has been given to 726 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #6,190 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Hally, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hally: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through Hallie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hally means

Hally belongs to the name family reached through Hally → Hallie → Harriet → Henriette → Henri → Henri → *Haimarīks. Its meaning is “home + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hally is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hallie, Harriet, Henriette, Henri and *Haimarīks.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hally is pronounced /ˈhæli/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 721 girls were recorded with the name Hally between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,220 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,566 in 2020 to #6,190 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,223 in 2015 to #6,190 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Hally between 1916 and 1916. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1916; its best national rank was #4,167 in 1916.

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 Hally?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,190
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hally 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hally. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hallys were born

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

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
721
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (218).

Is Hally 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
+2,957
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,376
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,033
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.5%
Peak was 2000 (29)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,220
2000

Spellings of Hally

Hally is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 23.3% against Hally's 0.04%.

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 Hally is used

Across 1910–2025, Hally was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Hally has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hally around the world

Where Hally 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
    2000–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1971–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hally by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,190
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,376
Best rank ever
#4,220
2000
Peak year
2000
29 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
721
Count in 2025
19

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,167
1916
Peak year
1916
5 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1916
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hally

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

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Sibling names for Hally

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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