girls:
691 births since 1955
#5025 (12th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1916
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
696 births since 1916
#7043 (9th percentile)
The name Hally is the #7,043 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 696 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 9.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,025 (12.1% percentile) for all time with 691 births since 1955. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1916.
Hally first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1955 for girls). Birth data for Hally is available in 65 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (64 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 Hally has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1955, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1916 to 1954), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1955 to 2023).
For girls, Hally reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #873) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Hally ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 27.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Hally reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #502) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1916.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hally".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Hally is pronounced as HA-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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