# Hal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hal/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,796 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 16,784 / 12 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 449, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 6 | 4,705 |
| 1926 | 6 | 4,526 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 5,769 |
| 2012 | 19 | 4,920 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,479 |
| 2014 | 22 | 4,438 |
| 2015 | 20 | 4,777 |
| 2016 | 15 | 5,885 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,620 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,643 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,687 |
| 2020 | 33 | 3,365 |
| 2021 | 30 | 3,680 |
| 2022 | 15 | 5,968 |
| 2023 | 41 | 3,023 |
| 2024 | 33 | 3,481 |
| 2025 | 38 | 3,151 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 | 1,911 |
| 2011 | 17 | 1,398 |
| 2012 | 11 | 1,962 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 12 | 1,903 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,445 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Hal

- Hal Holbrook, American actor (1925–2021)
- Timothée Chalamet, French-American actor (born 1995)
- Hal B. Wallis, American film producer and art collector (1898–1986)
- Hal Ashby, American film director and film editor (1929-1988)
- Hal Clement, American author (1922–2003)
- Hal Roach, American filmmaker (1892–1992)
- Hal Abelson, computer scientist
- Hal Greer, American basketball player (1936–2018)
- Hal Hartley, American film director and screenwriter (born 1959)
- Hal Rogers, American politician
- Hal Needham, American stunt performer and film director (1931-2013)
- Hal Smith, American actor (1916-1994)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.