Halá
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Halá is a female 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.
- JOJordan≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 350
- EGEgypt≈1 in 550
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 Halá 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)
- Record sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 273 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hala in SY Syria, EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 more, Nilu in IN India and 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)Hala är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’strålkrans (kring månen)’.
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The African book of names
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Halá 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 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | listed | Hala | 123 |
| BD Bangladesh | #217 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Nila | 38 |
| IN India | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1.4K | Nilu | 96 |
| SY Syria | #56 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 352 | 1 | Hala | 53 |
| JO Jordan | #285 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 273 | — | Hala | 96 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #272 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 984 | — | Hala | 116 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,505 | 1 in 6.8K | 1.5K | Hala | 33 |
| 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Halá a male or female name?
- Halá is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Halá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 211 thousand people named Halá in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hala.
- How common is the name Halá?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,505 people named Halá, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Halá compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Halá 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/hal%C3%A1The 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, “Halá” — the 122nd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.