Halo — #513 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Halo

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,029 babies named Halo between 2000 and 2024, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Halo currently holds the #513 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 598 babies received it in a single year. Halo is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 749 additional births since 2008.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Halo performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 2,155 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Halo shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 418 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Halo in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Halo 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 4,029 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.