Halsey

Halsey is the 4,684th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,344 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 40,700.

By the numbers

People: 7,344
Rank: 4,684th
How common: 1 in 40,700
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Places in England, from Old English hals (“neck of land”) + Old English īeġ (“island”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Halsey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.0%
Black, not Hispanic 11.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Halsey

William Halsey Jr. (1882–1959)United States admiral
Brett Halsey (born 1933)American actor

People named Halsey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Halsey

Also a first name

Halsey has been given to 956 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.