Halo

What Halo means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Halo yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,609 in 2015, #612 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Halo?

US: Rising: up from #1609 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4103 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 600 girls got the name (#513 that year). First in the US records in 2000.

How common

• About 1 in 3,370 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 12,664 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AR (0.94 per 1,000 girls), AL (0.93 per 1,000 girls), LA (0.92 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Halo is #612 in the US and #1512 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 65.3% of US babies named Halo were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Haley314 US · 4 E&W
• Hala57 US · 41 E&W
• Hali25 US · 8 E&W
• Haylo21 US
• Hila18 US · 3 E&W
• Hally19 US
• Haily17 US
• Halah8 US · 8 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Halo

Girls

• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Lia#200Latin, meaning “cow”^*
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Luciana#273Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #273 vs #1,809 in 2025
• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Ruby#64Editor’s note Up from #83 in 2015 to #64 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 450 US girls in the 2025 records

For a brother

• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*
• Zayden#213Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 2000, with 11 babies
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Halo’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.