Halah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAH-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Halah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “halo around the moon”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Halah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Hala
“halo around the moon”
Arabic word for the halo of light that can appear around the moon.
Meaning borrowed from Hala.
Is Halah a girl's or a boy's name?
Halah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Halah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,101among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 450% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Halah, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Halah of any year since the records began in 1996.
In 2025, 65 girls in the UK were given Halah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #598, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Halah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
How popular is Halah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Halah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1996, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.
Half of all the girls named Halah in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 65 girls in the US were given Halah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,240, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
- Hala 57
- Halah 8
Halah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,149 |
Names like Halah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hiba Ayah Hibah Hafsa Zainab Aaliyah Nusaybah Farah Sumayyah Huda Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Halah
Names related to Halah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Halah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/halah, updated 20 October 2026.