Hal
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#3,151
up +330 places
2025 births
38
up +5 births
All-time births
16,784
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1956
- 598 births
- Best rank
- #305
- in 1956
- First recorded
- 1880
- #773 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1949
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1956598#305Peak
- 1957526#333
- 1955455#342
- 1958455#360
- 1959418#387
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #305 in 1956 · peak births 598 in 1956
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
16,784 boys · 12 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Hal has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.