Halsey
Halsey was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,104 among girls’ names; 956 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Halsey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Halsey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Halsey is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “neck of land” (hals) and “island” (īeġ).
Places in England, from Old English hals (“neck of land”) + Old English īeġ (“island”)
/ˈhɔːlzi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Halsey?
#4,104 among girls’ names, 2025
Halsey entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #4,104 in 2025.
51 babies in 2021, the peak
Halsey peaked in 2021, when 51 girls were given it, #3,175 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,104 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,476 | 5 | #12,960 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,311 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,433 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,175 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,044 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,037 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,598 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,632 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,080 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,468 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 8 | #9,160 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,866 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,644 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,372 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,978 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,132 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,172 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,499 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,221 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,241 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,815 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,633 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,359 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,294 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,196 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,271 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,796 | 5 | #8,907 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,176 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,892 | 5 | #8,595 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,069 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,600 | 7 | #6,008 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,468 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,857 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,248 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,992 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 9 | #4,271 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,637 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,285 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,302 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,227 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 10 | #2,721 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,596 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,578 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 9 | #2,757 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 7 | #3,124 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,316 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 9 | #2,468 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 10 | #2,372 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 9 | #2,630 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 7 | #3,052 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #2,977 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,265 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 6 | #3,298 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,318 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 8 | #2,838 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 10 | #2,526 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 11 | #2,507 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 8 | #3,090 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 9 | #2,926 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 10 | #2,788 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,906 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 11 | #2,654 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 18 | #1,925 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 12 | #2,507 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #4,035 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 12 | #2,545 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 17 | #1,992 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 10 | #2,761 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 14 | #2,208 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 11 | #2,483 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 9 | #2,803 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 12 | #2,231 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 12 | #1,910 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 10 | #1,858 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 5 | #1,690 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 5 | #1,477 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 5 | #1,205 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 5 | #1,398 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 7 | #841 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 7 | #740 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 5 | #969 |
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 Halsey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 956 Americans recorded as Halsey, 57% are girls and 43% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Halsey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Halsey, and how old are they?
An estimated 635 Americans named Halsey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 585 people named Halsey (317 women and girls, 268 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% above 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 990 babies since 1880, Halsey is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 35 babies (100%), again the 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.
More about Halsey and names like it
- Compare Halsey and HolseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHalsey peaked in 2021.
- Nebraska’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Halsey since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Halsey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Halsey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Halsey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.