Halo

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Halo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Halo: Recorded since 2004, its highest recorded position is #898, reached in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#898highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#4598
2009	#5556
2010	#5707
2011	#5785
2012	#4171
2013	#3160
2014	#4003
2015	#4103
2016	#4096
2017	#3583
2018	#1977
2019	#2458
2020	#1939
2021	#2499
2022	#2058
2023	#962
2024	#1262

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 17 of the 21 years from 2004 to 2024.

In 2024: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1262 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #4598 among girls in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1262 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Halo appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 168 births with the name.

Halo across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Halo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4598 (2004)	#962 (2023)	#1262 (2024)	17 of 21	168 (2004–2024)	36 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#3937 (2019)	#2671 (2024)	#2671 (2024)	5 of 6	22 (2019–2024)	8 (2024)

Halo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Halo in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	6	2 of 10	3
2010s	63	10 of 10	6
2020sbusiest	99	5 of 10	20

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 20 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Halo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #898 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Halo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1262	26	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#962	36	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2004 and 2024, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #898, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 20 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Advika · #898, 16y
Dhanvi · #898, 14y
Lujain · #898, 22y
Morrigan · #898, 17y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Advika · #898, 16y
Dhanvi · #898, 14y
Lujain · #898, 22y
Naira · #898, 20y

Halo was ranked #898 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Halo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Halo without appearing here.

Halo moved ahead of

Kim Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3583 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1977 and #5666.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #5493.
Therese Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4103 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2458 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Halo

Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4003 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #2705.

Moved the opposite way to Halo

Abigail Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halo went from #4598 to #1262 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halo went from #4598 to #1262 while Aimee went from #47 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halo went from #4598 to #1262 while Aisling went from #866 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halo went from #4598 to #1262 while Alex went from #199 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Halo

Ada Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halo went from #4598 to #1262 and Ada from #1617 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halo went from #4598 to #1262 and Alma from #1535 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halo went from #4598 to #1262 and Amelia from #18 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halo went from #4598 to #1262 and Aria from #1715 to #35.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #898 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Halo

Halo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Halo across 2 official records

Halo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Halo appears in

Popularity data

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Halo at a glance

Halo across 2 official records

Halo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Halo appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Halo

Halo and the names beside it

Halo moved ahead of

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