How rare is the name Hali?

4,037 people in the United States have the first name Hali, about 1 in 74,816. It ranks #4,559 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

HALI

#4,559

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,037
About
1 in 74,816
This common or more
84.2%
Who bears it

Of the 4,037 people named Hali, 78.5% reported their origin as White, 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.7% as two or more races. 99% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Hali peaked in 1993, when 325 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19502025
Peak year
1993
Births that year
325
In 2025*
25 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,649 babies have been given the name since 1950. 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.

Hali by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,563. The largest share of babies named Hali, 52.2%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1950s#8,67441
1960s#6,75693
1970s#7,227125
1980s#2,803676
1990s#1,5632,277
2000s#3,386976
2010s#7,794311
2020s#8,923150
Baby boom 1946–641.8%
Generation X 1965–804.1%
Millennials 1981–9652.2%
Generation Z 1997–1234.6%
2013 and later7.4%

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.

Where Hali is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Hali has been most common in Alabama (3.6×), Louisiana (2.4×), and Georgia (2.1×), and least common in Illinois (0.44×).

2,579 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Hali

1 other first name also has 4,037 people.

#4,559 Ting · 4,037

Either side of Hali

#4,557 Ishaan · 4,039#4,558 Ronna · 4,038#4,559 Ting · 4,037#4,561 Lucius · 4,036

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Hali, most common first.

#2,488 Hal · 9,875#3,279 Halie · 6,504#4,448 Hala · 4,193#8,303 Halo · 1,752#8,619 Hayli · 1,676#10,571 Halli · 1,251#11,801 Hale · 1,072#13,322 Haili · 910

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