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The first name 
Hali

Hali is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

When two girls called Hali meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Hali is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Hali. In the SmartGenius ranking, Hali is #4,418 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hali.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Hali

Hali -
keeping with the times

Hali is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Hali - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 645 in 1993. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Hali really in tune with her generation.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Hali was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Hali in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

27 babies were named Hali in 2022 - that's 1 in 5,490,070 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Hali ranked 4,321 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Hali -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Hali, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 30 states are home to women and girls named Hali. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Hali living in one state or another. If your name is Hali and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Alabama, which has the most people named Hali relative to the population, you still have to ask 16,433 women and girls their names before you hear Hali as an answer just once.

Hali has 4 letters 
and begins with an H

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With four letters, the name Hali is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.

Other names with 
H, a, l and i

If you take all the letters in the name Hali – H, a, l and i – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Ahil or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Hali

If your name is Hali and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Hali

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hali, you can simply say:

Hat

Apple

Lion

Igloo

This is how the name Hali is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Hali in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Hali

Hali

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Hali

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Hali is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

H
A
L
I

Have you ever waved the name Hali

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

H
A
L
I

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Hali sounds like this: