Hall
Hall was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,042 among boys’ names; 877 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hall by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hall?
#10,042 among boys’ names, 2025
Hall entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,042 in 2025.
33 babies in 1918, the peak
Hall peaked in 1918, when 33 boys were given it, #1,220 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,042 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,410 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,478 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,162 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,400 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,735 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,070 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,889 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,227 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,148 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #11,983 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,693 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,107 | 3.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,332 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,367 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,643 | 2.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,266 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,003 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,360 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,085 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,683 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,156 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,794 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,300 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,340 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,177 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,367 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,203 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,273 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,009 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,864 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,467 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,269 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,262 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,563 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,009 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,045 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,244 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,464 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,193 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,737 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,709 | 14.7 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,550 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,735 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,036 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,609 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,801 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,174 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,034 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,952 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,738 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,355 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,823 | 16.7 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,445 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,618 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,631 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 18 | #1,899 | 16.1 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,366 | 26.5 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,783 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,184 | 13.8 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,673 | 20.0 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,079 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,463 | 25.5 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,220 | 32.6 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,248 | 32.4 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,615 | 22.5 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,195 | 35.4 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,573 | 24.4 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,280 | 33.2 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,570 | 25.6 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,359 | 36.0 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,155 | 45.3 |
| 1902 | 7 | #973 | 57.1 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,201 | 40.8 |
| 1896 | 8 | #853 | 66.9 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,020 | 51.1 |
| 1893 | 6 | #954 | 53.4 |
| 1881 | 6 | #817 | 59.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hall a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hall has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hall: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hall, and how old are they?
An estimated 251 Americans named Hall and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 19 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 719 people named Hall (151 women and girls, 568 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 264 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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 spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 17,767 babies since 1880, Hall is the second most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 45 babies (16%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hall
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 Hall and names like it
- Compare Hall and HalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHall peaked in 1918.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hall since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Hall.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hall alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.