Halston — #2486 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Halston

The Social Security Administration has registered 851 babies named Halston between 1981 and 2024, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Halston currently holds the #2486 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 79 babies received it in a single year. Halston is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 626 additional births since 1989.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Halston performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 290 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Halston shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 82 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Halston in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Halston 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 851 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.