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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 5,900 of them was named Halo, which outranked 94.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 59,520 of them was named Halo, which outranked 74.0% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,570Vian30
- #3,570Yadier30
- #3,570Yaziel30
- #3,653Halo29
- #3,653Abrar29
- #3,653Akil29
- #3,653Alexandros29
- #3,734Abhay28
- #3,734Advith28
- #3,734Amor28
Tied with 80 names at #3,653; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.