Haley vs Hall

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Haley Hall

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 131 years in which either name was published, Haley for 86 years and Hall for 45 years. The lead changed hands 21 times.

• 1890–1910 Haley ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1912–1957 Hall ahead, apart from 4 short spells
• 1960–2025 Haley ahead

14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Halls alive today are over 63; half the Haleys are over 26. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Haley Alaska (1.7×), Tennessee (1.7×), Nevada (1.7×)
• Hall North Carolina (21.7×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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