Halston

Halston: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“Hal's town estate”
Origin
English
Say it
HAL-stən · 2 syllables
Used for
Both (42% girls, 58% boys since 1880)

Transferred from an English surname and place-name, likely from a personal name such as Hal plus tun, 'settlement, estate'. Best known from designer Halston as a surname.

How popular is Halston?

202444.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Halston in 2024145

2024 rank#2,121 girls

Peak year2022

Total US babies since 18801,477

Halston is rising: use over the last five years is 7.7× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Halston

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Averyruler of elves · English
  • Riverriver · English
  • Sawyerwoodcutter · English
  • TatumTata's homestead · English
  • EmersonEmery's son · English
  • Haydenhay valley · English
  • Sagewise one; sage plant · English
  • Remingtonsettlement by the streambank · English

Halston questions

What does the name Halston mean?

Halston means "Hal's town estate". It comes from English. Transferred from an English surname and place-name, likely from a personal name such as Hal plus tun, 'settlement, estate'. Best known from designer Halston as a surname.

Is Halston a boy or girl name?

Halston is used for both: about 42% of US babies named Halston since 1880 were girls.

How popular is Halston?

145 US babies were named Halston in 2024. Its peak year was 2022.

How do you pronounce Halston?

Halston is usually pronounced HAL-stən.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.