Thirty years of Hallie
Hallie in numbers
Hallie is still climbing: from 3 girls in 1999 (its first published year) to 1,246 in 2025, its highest count so far. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2016 and 2019, from 385 to 910. It ranked 3,900th in 1999 and reached 29th in 2025, its best place so far. On average it was given to 60 girls a year in the 2000s, 367 in the 2010s and 1,141 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year+2%1,218 to 1,246
- 5 years+31%954 to 1,246
- 10 years+376%262 to 1,246
- 20 years+1,458%80 to 1,246
- Since 1999 (first published)×4153 to 1,246
- Total, 1996 to 202511,119girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 29 · ONS · 1,218 in 2024
Rank 19 · NRS · 104 in 2024
Rank 57 · NISRA · 30 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | 1,246 | +2% | 1 in 228 |
| 2024 | 32 | 1,218 | +6% | 1 in 238 |
| 2023 | 34 | 1,154 | -4% | 1 in 250 |
| 2022 | 33 | 1,202 | +12% | 1 in 245 |
| 2021 | 42 | 1,070 | +12% | 1 in 285 |
| 2020 | 49 | 954 | +5% | 1 in 314 |
| 2019 | 58 | 910 | +34% | 1 in 342 |
| 2018 | 79 | 680 | +22% | 1 in 470 |
| 2017 | 98 | 556 | +44% | 1 in 595 |
| 2016 | 144 | 385 | +47% | 1 in 881 |
| 2015 | 206 | 262 | +20% | 1 in 1,297 |
| 2014 | 232 | 218 | +27% | 1 in 1,553 |
| 2013 * | =273 | 172 | -13% | 1 in 1,985 |
| 2012 | 253 | 197 | +36% | 1 in 1,804 |
| 2011 | =332 | 145 | +1% | 1 in 2,434 |
| 2010 | =328 | 143 | +35% | 1 in 2,463 |
| 2009 | =398 | 106 | +63% | 1 in 3,246 |
| 2008 | =580 | 65 | -29% | 1 in 5,319 |
| 2007 | =447 | 91 | +38% | 1 in 3,687 |
| 2006 | =544 | 66 | -18% | 1 in 4,957 |
| 2005 | =459 | 80 | +33% | 1 in 3,940 |
| 2004 | =533 | 60 | +5% | 1 in 5,190 |
| 2003 | =538 | 57 | +138% | 1 in 5,316 |
| 2002 | =938 | 24 | -33% | 1 in 12,085 |
| 2001 | =696 | 36 | +89% | 1 in 8,055 |
| 2000 | =1,058 | 19 | +533% | 1 in 15,516 |
| 1999 | =3,900 | 3 | 1 in 100,869 | |
| 1998 | n/a | under 3 | ||
| 1997 | n/a | under 3 | ||
| 1996 | n/a | under 3 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate