Halsey
- Gender
- Girl
- US rank, 2025
- #4,066 for girls
Halsey is a girls' name, meaning “neck of land”. In 2025 it ranked 4,066th for girls in the US (35 babies).
What does Halsey mean?
“neck of land”
A male given name transferred from the surname.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Halsey a girl's or a boy's name?
Halsey is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 35 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Halsey in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,066among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 35about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 12% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 35 girls in the US were named Halsey, making it the 4,066th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,004th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 51 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the girls named Halsey in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Halsey in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,066 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,459 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,274 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,415 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,157 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,004 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,005 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,560 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 10 | #7,980 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,239 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,330 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,808 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,407 |
Names like Halsey
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadley Journey Harley Haisley Oakley Paisley Emery Everly Presley Emberly Harper Kinsley
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, “Halsey: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/halsey, updated 20 October 2026.