Halo Girl
How popular is Halo?
#612 girl name in 2025
477 baby girls were named Halo in the US in 2025, making it the 612th most popular girl name. Another 253 boys got the name (#929 for boys).
Halo popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #612 for girls (▼ 99 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 477 girls, 253 boys |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+259% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,609 in 2015, #937 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (600 girls) |
| Highest rank | #513 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 2000 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 20% boys, 80% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.5% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Halo counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Halo family of names ranked #558 for girls in 2025 (#466 the year before), with 511 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Halo | 477 | 93% |
| Haylo | 21 | 4% |
| Hailo | 13 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Halo is most popular
Babies named Halo per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Georgia: 0.8 per 1,000 (174 girls)
- Maryland: 0.7 per 1,000 (77 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.7 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- District of Columbia: 0.7 per 1,000 (8 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.7 per 1,000 (57 girls)
Halo by decade
Girl names about as popular as Halo
Questions
- Is Halo a boy or girl name?
- Halo is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 80% of babies named Halo were girls.
- How popular is the name Halo?
- 477 baby girls were named Halo in the US in 2025, making it the 612th most popular girl name. Another 253 boys got the name (#929 for boys).
- When was Halo most popular?
- Halo peaked in 2024, when 600 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #513 in 2024.
- How many people are named Halo?
- 5,512 babies have been named Halo in the US since 1880. We estimate about 5,492 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 5.
- Where is Halo most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Halo was most common in Georgia, at 0.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.