Halley
Halley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 63 births. Its best rank was 580th, in 1986.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 630.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1986333 births
- Best rank
- #580in 1986
- Since 1910
- 4,195people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,069 girls have been named Halley in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 333 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 32%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 126 boys have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Halley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 16 | |
| 1920s | 7 | |
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 7 | |
| 1960s | 46 | |
| 1970s | 126 | |
| 1980s | 757 | |
| 1990s | 1,314 | |
| 2000s | 1,110 | |
| 2010s | 450 | |
| 2020s | 231 |
In 1986, its biggest year
Halley was the 580th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1986 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Halley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leonelapeak 1985
- Maloriepeak 1987
- Kadypeak 2008
- Caleypeak 1994
- Jennapeak 1985
- Kayshapeak 1991
- Gabriellpeak 1989
- Alyssepeak 1988
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.