Meaning and history
Medieval diminutive of Harry, best known as the name of Prince Hal, the future King Henry V, in Shakespeare’s two historical plays about Henry IV.
20062006: 14 births, rank #5,781
2007: 15 births, rank #5,661
2008: 9 births, rank #8,324
2009: 12 births, rank #6,802
2010: 10 births, rank #7,591
20112011: 15 births, rank #5,675
2012: 19 births, rank #4,862
2013: 16 births, rank #5,404
2014: 22 births, rank #4,392
2015: 20 births, rank #4,711
20162016: 15 births, rank #5,789
2017: 16 births, rank #5,526
2018: 30 births, rank #3,607
2019: 21 births, rank #4,639
2020: 33 births, rank #3,344
20212021: 30 births, rank #3,651
2022: 15 births, rank #5,874
2023: 41 births, rank #3,005
2024: 33 births, rank #3,455
20252025: 38 births, rank #3,128
Hal moved from #873 to #924 for boys between 1974 and 1975. Its highest annual birth count came in 1956, with 598 births.