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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 3,051 of them was named Halo, which outranked 96.8% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 13,795 of them was named Halo, which outranked 89.7% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,449Rafe125
- #1,449Sire125
- #1,449Zephaniah125
- #1,458Halo124
- #1,458Cristopher124
- #1,458Elon124
- #1,458Giovani124
- #1,465Alder123
- #1,465Anton123
- #1,465German123
Tied with 6 names at #1,458; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.