girls:
463 births since 1981
#5253 (8th percentile)
boys:
408 births since 1880
#4178 (9th percentile)
overall:
871 births since 1880
#6868 (11th percentile)
The name Halsey is the #6,868 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 871 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 11.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,253 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 463 births since 1981. For boys, it ranks #4,178 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 408 births since 1880.
Halsey has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1981 for girls). Birth data for Halsey is available in 80 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (49 years for boys and 34 years for girls). 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 Halsey is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Halsey were girls. Interestingly, until around 1984, the name was more popular for boys (98.0% boys from 1880 to 1983), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (94.8% girls from 1984 to 2023).
For girls, Halsey reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #890) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 28 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Halsey ranks #919 for girls (3.0% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 66.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Halsey reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #541) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 65 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Halsey".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Halsey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.2% confident that Halsey is pronounced as HAWL-zee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAWL-see, at 21.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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