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Throughout the world, Halt (Alto , Alt , Halt ) is quite a rare primarily male, but scarcely feminine forename. The first name Halt is habitual in Tanzania, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Albania, and Ethiopia, where it is a rare boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. More frequently, Halt is the last name as well as the forename.
Halt is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Alto solo , the operatic character in the opera Die Bürgschaft by Kurt Weill.