Halo

Where Halo comes from

Halo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1905
    Halo Meadows born
    actress, dancer, writer
  2. 2000
    First appearance
    #11,801 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2024
    Peak, #513
    600 babies named Halo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Halo Meadows · actress, dancer, writer, 1905–1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.