Halo
#612 for girls in 2025, 477 births · #929 for boys in 2025, 253 births
Given to girls 81.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 600 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,509since 2000
Halo over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #612 | 477 | #929 | 253 |
| 2024 | #513 | 600 | #988 | 227 |
| 2023 | #565 | 526 | #1,458 | 124 |
| 2022 | #768 | 372 | #2,168 | 67 |
| 2021 | #739 | 386 | #2,732 | 46 |
| 2020 | #937 | 274 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #960 | 274 | #3,636 | 30 |
| 2018 | #1,116 | 219 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #1,465 | 153 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #1,320 | 181 | #4,098 | 25 |
| 2015 | #1,609 | 133 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #1,617 | 133 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #1,900 | 105 | #4,621 | 20 |
| 2012 | #1,575 | 138 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #1,679 | 125 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #1,481 | 152 | #4,241 | 23 |
| 2009 | #1,810 | 119 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #3,084 | 55 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | — | |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | — | |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | — | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | — | |
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| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Halo! It came in at #11,801, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Halo is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oregon#670 · 1 in 3,046
- Indiana#1,072 · 1 in 6,126
- Pennsylvania#1,120 · 1 in 7,542
- Ohio#1,156 · 1 in 7,540
- Virginia#1,218 · 1 in 7,496
Best ever in a state: #96 in District of Columbia, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #670 | 5 | 1 in 3,046 |
| Indiana | #1,072 | 5 | 1 in 6,126 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,120 | 7 | 1 in 7,542 |
| Ohio | #1,156 | 7 | 1 in 7,540 |
| Virginia | #1,218 | 5 | 1 in 7,496 |
| Florida | #1,355 | 9 | 1 in 9,552 |
| Georgia | #1,495 | 5 | 1 in 9,739 |
| California | #1,732 | 14 | 1 in 14,667 |
| Texas | #1,803 | 12 | 1 in 14,140 |
| New York | #2,215 | 5 | 1 in 18,264 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Halo
- 99 spots since 2024 (#513 → #612)
- 325 spots since 2020 (#937 → #612)
- 997 spots since 2015 (#1,609 → #612)
- Biggest jump: 203 spots in 2023 (#768 → #565)
- Biggest drop: 99 spots in 2025 (#513 → #612)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2024 at #513 (600 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,700 girls born in 2024 were named Halo (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,370 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 58.4% of all girls named Halo (2,635) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 261 | #1,810 (2009) | #7,781 |
| 2010s | 1,613 | #960 (2019) | #1,472 |
| 2020s | 2,635 | #513 (2024) | #689 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Halo in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 13,422 of them was named Halo, which outranked 91.6% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,600Ruthie134
- #1,600Serafina134
- #1,600Wilhelmina134
- #1,609Halo133
- #1,609Akshara133
- #1,609Arabelle133
- #1,609Aspyn133
- #1,622Annamarie132
- #1,622Ariyana132
- #1,622Cattleya132
Tied with 12 names at #1,609; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 119,796 of them was named Halo, which outranked 60.8% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,289Zaven17
- #5,289Zaxton17
- #5,289Ziare17
- #5,507Halo16
- #5,507Aasim16
- #5,507Aasir16
- #5,507Abdiaziz16
- #5,746Aaban15
- #5,746Aadarsh15
- #5,746Aarion15
Tied with 238 names at #5,507; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.