Hal Boy Name

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The name Hal is a diminutive form of Henry. The table below indicates the number of times the name Hal has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Hal**
Use of the Name Hal for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
15,184	5,269	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Hal has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Hal last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1975, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Hal**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	774	7
1881	516	12
1882	347	26
1883	387	20
1884	354	25
1885	490	15
1886	420	18
1887	344	23
1888	422	20
1889	565	12
1890	397	21
1891	435	17
1892	488	17
1893	353	26
1894	391	23
1895	446	20
1896	472	19
1897	427	20
1898	368	28
1899	419	20
1900	459	25
1901	440	19
1902	406	25
1903	419	23
1904	472	21
1905	512	20
1906	467	23
1907	420	30
1908	598	19
1909	534	24
1910	504	31
1911	448	43
1912	506	60
1913	483	81
1914	448	115
1915	441	153
1916	494	133
1917	513	126
1918	453	172
1919	470	161
1920	433	193
1921	461	178
1922	470	172
1923	486	158
1924	452	183
1925	433	190
1926	446	186
1927	448	186
1928	427	194
1929	424	193
1930	482	153
1931	439	165
1932	404	195
1933	395	188
1934	382	205
1935	384	200
1936	463	149
1937	410	191
1938	453	162
1939	401	202
1940	419	193
1941	419	193
1942	426	207
1943	432	208
1944	416	210
1945	413	212
1946	399	258
1947	357	364
1948	355	356
1949	334	404
1950	348	372
1951	347	388
1952	348	390
1953	342	406
1954	349	418
1955	342	456
1956	306	594
1957	333	526
1958	359	456
1959	387	416
1960	396	400
1961	431	340
1962	525	231
1963	477	278
1964	563	198
1965	540	200
1966	583	169
1967	609	151
1968	676	124
1969	758	106
1970	734	125
1971	739	124
1972	737	115
1973	808	95
1974	872	85
1975	915	80
Totals:		15,184		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Hal as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Hal appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 96 times during the last 125 years.

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