Girls' name · since 1989
Halea
Halea has 241 recorded births since 1989 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1993 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #17,935 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,558 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 241
- born since 1989
- 1990s
- peak decade
Yes -- Halea is the #15558 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 241 recorded since 1989.
Halea has 241 recorded births among girls since 1989, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15558 as of the latest data, more common than 10% of girls, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1989 to 2025.
- #17,935 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,558 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 241 born since 1989
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Halea ranks #17,935 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,558 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 241 born since 1989, peaking in the 1990s.
- #17,935 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,558 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 241
- born since 1989
- 1990s
- peak decade
Halea's 241 recorded births place it above 75.17% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Halea compares
241 41st percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Halea's all-time total is 36% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Halea | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 241 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 20 | 21 | 19,840 |
Halea's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Halea's SSA record in two at 2000 and the more recent half accounts for 46% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 54%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1990, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1993 peak of 20, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Halea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–2025
- Peak year (1993)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 37 years of records
Halea by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (123 births, 51% of the file).
1990s was Halea's strongest decade.
123 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 51% of all-time use.
Halea births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 6
1980s
6 births
- 1990s
1990s
123 births
- 2000s
2000s
99 births
- 2010s 8
2010s
8 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 123 births (51% of all-time use).
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What to do with Halea's data
- Halea's decade-level peak was the 1990s (123 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Halea: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1993)
Similar record span (~36 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1989–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Halea draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.