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Hal
Pronounced /hæl/
Rank in 2024
#3,488
Born in 2024
33
Peak year
1956 · #305
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 33 boys were named Hal, about 1 in every 51,979.
- It peaked in 1956 with 598 babies, ranked #305.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 16,746 boys have been named Hal since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Hal per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,724 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Silent: 3,423 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Boomers: 7,261 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,712 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 659 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 261 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 292 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A diminutive lambdacism of Harry (compare Sally from Sarah and Moll from Mary).
- A diminutive of the male given names Henry, Harold and Harry.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /hæl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Hal, CC BY-SA 4.0.