Halle
Halle was given to 491 girls in 2025, #596 among girls’ names; 16,657 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,500 Americans named Halle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Halle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Halle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Halle is “a female given name, alternative spelling of Hallie. popularized by american actress Halle Berry”
As a German surname, variant of Hall.
As a French surname, from the noun halle (“covered room”).
As a Belgian and Dutch surname, from Halle, Belgium.
As a Jewish surname, from Halle in Saxony, named after the river Saale.
/ˈhæli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Halle?
#596 among girls’ names, 2025
Halle rose from #909 in 2015 to #596 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.17 to 0.31 per 1,000.
971 babies in 2002, the peak
Halle peaked in 2002, when 971 girls were given it, #316 among girls’ names. The 491 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 491 | #596 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 530 | #572 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 425 | #686 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 415 | #709 | 0.25 |
| 2021 | 392 | #729 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 313 | #862 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 330 | #825 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 301 | #896 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 276 | #959 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 278 | #969 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 302 | #909 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 363 | #772 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 407 | #695 | 0.23 |
| 2012 | 449 | #637 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 467 | #621 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 529 | #552 | 0.30 |
| 2009 | 549 | #557 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 620 | #502 | 0.33 |
| 2007 | 618 | #513 | 0.32 |
| 2006 | 626 | #492 | 0.33 |
| 2005 | 735 | #421 | 0.40 |
| 2004 | 801 | #387 | 0.44 |
| 2003 | 919 | #338 | 0.50 |
| 2002 | 971 | #316 | 0.54 |
| 2001 | 638 | #437 | 0.35 |
| 2000 | 639 | #442 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 585 | #454 | 0.33 |
| 1998 | 430 | #570 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 372 | #610 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 378 | #605 | 0.22 |
| 1995 | 306 | #694 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 298 | #702 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 286 | #734 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,717 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,966 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,562 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,705 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,127 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,660 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,349 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,213 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,338 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,317 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,601 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,806 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,196 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,579 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,495 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,735 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,550 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,485 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,374 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,298 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,055 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,842 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,998 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,921 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,967 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,988 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,276 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,932 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,076 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,137 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,546 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Halle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Halle has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 70 years of records.
Girls and boys named Halle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Halle, and how old are they?
16,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,657 Americans ever recorded as Halle. The median Halle alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 13,596 people named Halle (13,546 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,027 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 44 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 219 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,790 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Halle born?
The states with the most babies named Halle are Texas, Ohio and California, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 41 | #732 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 28 | #406 | 1.8× |
| California | 25 | #1,063 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 22 | #745 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #528 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #549 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 19 | #364 | 1.4× |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #281 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 18 | #399 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 16 | #604 | 0.8× |
Where Halle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Halle is most over-represented in Utah: since 1948 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Halle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 508,829 babies since 1880, Halle is the sixth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 491 of their 6,158 babies (8.0%), the third most given that year.
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 Halle
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 Halle and names like it
- Compare Halle and HaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHalle peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Halle since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Halle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Halle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.