Halston
#2,337 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Halston has been given to 1,626 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #2,337 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 79 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 56% boys, 44% girls all-time.
Babies named Halston, 2025
1 in 56,200
Halston 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Halston over time
In 2025, Halston went to 60% girls and 40% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Halston?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 56,200
- 59 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 28,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,337
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 38,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Halston 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 38,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Halstons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Halston was born before 2014 — so the typical Halston is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 38.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 911
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (350).
Is Halston 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
- +118
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +819
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,758
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.21×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 74.7%
- Peak was 2022 (79)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.6% average annual change
Spellings of Halston
Halston is not the most common spelling — Dalton is, with 31.0% against Halston's 0.33%.
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 Halston is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Halston was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 422,363 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Washington1 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. Halston has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Halston is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Halston was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 36,140 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
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.
Halston around the world
Where Halston 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.
- Canada2022–2023#3,103in 2023
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Halston by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Halston
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Halston
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.