Hala — #3386 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Hala

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,756 babies named Hala between 1887 and 2024, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hala currently holds the #3386 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 70 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hala performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 591 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Hala shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 86 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Hala in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hala in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,756 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.