Hala
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: halo, ring, glory. Wife of Abdul Muttalib, grandfather of Muhammad (s).*° See Dara (A)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hala is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Syria it is the 56th most common given name.
- SYSyria≈1 in 564(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 662
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hala itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 564 (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nila in BD Bangladesh.
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)
halo, ring, glory. Wife of Abdul Muttalib, grandfather of Muhammad (s).*° See Dara (A)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hala is read(measured from records)
Hala is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic60%
halo, ring, glory. Wife of Abdul Muttalib, grandfather of Muhammad (s).*° See Dara (A)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
halo, ring around the eye, aureole; sister of Khadija
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Hindi14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hala in Hindi.
- English8.5%
Pandanus tectorius, a screw pine native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hala counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #122 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Hala | 123 |
| BD Bangladesh | #217 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Nila | 38 |
| SY Syria | #56 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 564 | 1 | Hala | 53 |
| JO Jordan | #285 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 662 | — | Hala | 96 |
| BR Brazil | — | 14,297as Nilo | 1 in 15K | 19K | Hala | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,505 | 1 in 6.8K | 1.5K | Hala | 33 |
| KW Kuwait | #160 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Hala | 58 |
| IS Iceland | — | 501as Halla | 1 in 700 | 535 | — | — |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). 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)
Hala is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Ancient name meaning ‘halo (around the moon)’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Toledo; before 1492
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Swedish, Hala är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’strålkrans (kring månen)’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Hélé Béjib. 1948TNnot in their usual nameTunisian writer
- Hala Goranib. 1970USAmerican journalist
- Princess Hala bint D'aij Al Khalifab. 1971BHBahraini Royal
- Hala Husseinb. 1972IQIraqi writer and The youngest daughter of Saddam Hussein
- Hala Ayalab. 1973USpolitician
- Léa Salaméb. 1979LBnot in their usual nameFrench-Lebanese journalist
- Hala Misratib. 1980LYLibyan television presenter
- Hala Alyanb. 1986PSPalestinian-American writer
- Hala Finleyb. 2009USAmerican actress
- Halah bint Wuhaybnot in their usual namewife of Abdul-Muttalib ibn Hashim
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 78 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.5K | #1,281 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 71 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #52,382 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 11 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Hala mean, and where does it come from?
- halo, ring, glory. Wife of Abdul Muttalib, grandfather of Muhammad (s).*° See Dara (A) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Hala a male or female name?
- Hala is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Hala have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Hala in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hala.
- How common is the name Hala?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,505 people named Hala, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Hala compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Hala is the 122nd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halaThe 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, “Hala” — the 122nd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.