Halo
Halo is given to both girls and boys: 477 girls and 253 boys were given it in 2025 (#613 among girls’ names and #931 among boys’, #874 among all names counting both); 5,512 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,480 Americans named Halo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Halo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Halo?
#613 among girls’ names, 2025
Halo rose from #1,612 in 2015 to #613 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.30 per 1,000.
827 babies in 2024, the peak
Halo peaked in 2024, when 827 babies were given it (600 girls, #513 among girls’ names). The 730 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 477 | #613 | 253 | #931 |
| 2024 | 600 | #513 | 227 | #988 |
| 2023 | 526 | #565 | 124 | #1,461 |
| 2022 | 372 | #768 | 67 | #2,175 |
| 2021 | 386 | #739 | 46 | #2,746 |
| 2020 | 274 | #938 | 29 | #3,675 |
| 2019 | 274 | #962 | 30 | #3,661 |
| 2018 | 219 | #1,118 | 27 | #3,922 |
| 2017 | 153 | #1,469 | 25 | #4,149 |
| 2016 | 181 | #1,322 | 25 | #4,134 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,612 | 16 | #5,587 |
| 2014 | 133 | #1,617 | 22 | #4,435 |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,911 | 20 | #4,684 |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,578 | 15 | #5,797 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,686 | 12 | #6,732 |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,484 | 23 | #4,282 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,812 | 18 | #5,165 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,091 | 24 | #4,178 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,403 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,260 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,043 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,893 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,929 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,217 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,248 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Halo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,512 Americans recorded as Halo, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Halo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Halo, and how old are they?
5,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,512 Americans ever recorded as Halo. The median Halo alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,752 people named Halo (1,511 women and girls, 241 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,193 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 762 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,720 |
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 Halo born?
The states with the most babies named Halo are Texas, California and Georgia, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 68 | #677 | 0.7× |
| California | 67 | #724 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 56 | #309 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 48 | #548 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 44 | #300 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #529 | 0.9× |
| New York | 34 | #877 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 27 | #702 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 21 | #669 | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 21 | #312 | 1.1× |
Where Halo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Halo is most over-represented in Georgia: since 2000 it was given 1.9 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 Halo 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 202,477 babies since 1880, Halo is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 730 of their 1,583 babies (46%), the 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 Halo
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 Halo and names like it
- Compare Halo and HaleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHalo peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Halo since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Halo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Halo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.