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Halee vs Hallie

American parents have registered 41,711 Hallies since 1880, against 2,952 Halees. Hallie is still ahead, with 2,260 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Halee against Hallie, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Halee Hallie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Hallie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Halee had 149 and Hallie had 464.

Side by side

  Halee Hallie
Total US births 2,95241,711
Most in one year 1922,260
Babies in 2025 under 52,260
Estimated living today 2,90031,000
Median age today 2617
Peak year 20002025
Best rank 1,075th girls120th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked120th
First recorded 19741880
Girls / boys 2,952 / 040,376 / 1,335

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Halees alive today are over 26; half the Hallies are over 17. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Halee and Hallie.