Hally
loc · Latin script
Meaning: person from an unidentified place, possibly in Scotland; perhaps from a name meaning large house within an enclosure
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hally is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from an unidentified place, possibly in Scotland; perhaps from a name meaning large house within an enclosure
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hally counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 809 | — | 12 |
| BR Brazil | — | 125 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 35 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 30 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 26 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hally is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A rare spelling variant of Hallie, diminutive of the female given name Harriet.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkmen, Bu at oglan-gyza dakylýar: Hal-ýagdaýy we bagty ýagşy bolsun.Endamynda haly bolan gyz-oglan.
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Harold Bergb. 1900not in their usual nameAmerican lyricist
- David Hallyb. 1940USarchaeologist
- Mike Hallyb. 1955USAmerican video game developer
- Janice Hallyb. 1959GBScottish writer
- Hally Pancerb. 1961USAmerican artist (born 1961)
- Philip HallyGBBritish Royal Navy officer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 809 | #14,020 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 125 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 98 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 93 | #35,208 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 63 | #25,115 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 61 | #44,666 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 54 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 44 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39 | #14,020 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35 | #17,442 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 33 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 33 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hally mean, and where does it come from?
- person from an unidentified place, possibly in Scotland; perhaps from a name meaning large house within an enclosure Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hally have the most bearers?
- Hally is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hally?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hallyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hally”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.