girls:
15.6k births since 1948
#1215 (79th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 2004
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
15.6k births since 1948
#2089 (73rd percentile)
The name Halle is the #2,089 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,630 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 73.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,215 (78.8% percentile) for all time with 15,624 births since 1948. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2004.
Halle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Halle is available in 68 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (68 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Halle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Halle reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 67.0% percentile (ranked #296) with 492 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 492 births per million (ranked 67.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Halle ranks #559 for girls (41.0% percentile) with 241 births per million, which is 49.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Halle reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #846) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Halle".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Halle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.0% confident that Halle is pronounced as HA-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hal, at 30.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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