Halyn
Halyn was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,684 among girls’ names; 378 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Halyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Halyn?
#9,684 among girls’ names, 2025
Halyn rose from #12,238 in 2015 to #9,684 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 6.2 per million.
29 babies in 2006, the peak
Halyn peaked in 2006, when 29 girls were given it, #4,871 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,684 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,627 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,620 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,212 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,027 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,051 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,998 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,817 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,996 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,998 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,238 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,427 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,906 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,580 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,270 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,851 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,963 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,212 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,914 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,871 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,641 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,009 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,700 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,481 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,222 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,087 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,243 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,007 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,309 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,197 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Halyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Halyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Halyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Halyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 375 Americans named Halyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 324 people named Halyn (306 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 307 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,750 babies since 1880, Halyn is the fifth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 128 babies (7.8%), the sixth 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 Halyn
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 Halyn and names like it
- Compare Halyn and HaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHalyn peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Halyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Halyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Halyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.