first name
HALA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,193 people named Hala, 86.1% reported their origin as White, 5.7% as Black and 4.5% as two or more races. 99.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Hala peaked in 2011, when 70 babies got the name.
At least 1,820 babies have been given the name since 1887. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Hala by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #3,121. The largest share of babies named Hala, 41.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Exactly as common as Hala
2 other first names also have 4,193 people.
Either side of Hala
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Hala, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Hala ranks #66,499 of 156,621, with 321 people. See Hala as a last name
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