Hallelujah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- hal-e-LOO-ya
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Hallelujah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “praise the Lord”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
What does Hallelujah mean?
Hebrew: from Hebrew hallelu 'praise' + Yah
“praise the Lord”
The word closes several Psalms and names the famous chorus in Handel's Messiah.
Is Hallelujah a girl's or a boy's name?
Hallelujah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hallelujah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,131st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 16% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Hallelujah, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2021, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Hallelujah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hallelujah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
Names like Hallelujah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Zaniyah, Azariyah, Zaliyah, Nusaybah, Salem, Azariah, Aaliyah, Naziyah, Zamira, Hadassa, Kaliyah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from 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, “Hallelujah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hallelujah, updated 20 October 2026.