Hale
Hale was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,580 among boys’ names; 1,296 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hale by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hale mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Hale is “a male given name from English” Its etymology gives the sense “house” (hale).
Borrowed from English Harry, identical with Hawaiian hale (“house”).
/ˈha.le/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hale?
#6,580 among boys’ names, 2025
Hale fell from #4,444 in 2015 to #6,580 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 7.6 per million.
30 babies in 1917, the peak
Hale peaked in 1917, when 30 boys were given it, #1,247 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,580 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,982 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,660 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,701 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,621 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,080 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,382 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,841 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,617 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,841 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,444 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,330 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,030 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,324 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,719 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,354 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,995 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,893 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,745 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,152 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,795 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,917 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,671 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,845 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,965 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,124 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,197 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,489 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,794 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,162 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,266 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,237 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,231 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,794 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,358 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,714 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,366 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,221 | 3.3 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,172 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,652 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,357 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,682 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,661 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,192 | 5.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,970 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,641 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,001 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,160 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,358 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,874 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,937 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,744 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,436 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,782 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,948 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,384 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,900 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,694 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,485 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,650 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,008 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,300 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,512 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,872 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,390 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,976 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,749 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,330 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,467 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,371 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,023 | 9.8 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,083 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,986 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,655 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,912 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,123 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,385 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,317 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,800 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,173 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,867 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,533 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,372 | 25.0 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,006 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,696 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,861 | 16.3 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,666 | 19.5 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,629 | 19.8 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,550 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,865 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,782 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,562 | 22.1 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,935 | 16.3 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,440 | 25.4 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,010 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,472 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,247 | 32.4 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,885 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,625 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,171 | 15.3 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,165 | 15.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,689 | 11.6 |
| 1896 | 7 | #929 | 58.5 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,142 | 41.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hale a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,296 Americans recorded as Hale, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Hale: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hale, and how old are they?
An estimated 719 Americans named Hale and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 12 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,072 people named Hale (279 women and girls, 793 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 697 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hale
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hale and names like it
- Compare Hale and ColvinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHale peaked in 1917.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hale since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Hale: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Hale.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hale alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.