Fun Facts About the Name Hallow
- 20 babies named Hallow: U.S. records list 20 babies given the name Hallow from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Hallow Mean?
Hallow is an English word-name meaning "holy person" or "saint." It comes from Old English hālga, a noun for a holy person or saint, formed from the adjective hālig, "holy." Both go back to a Germanic root meaning "holy," also found in Old Norse heilagr and Old High German heilag, and in the modern English word holy. As a common noun, hallow means a saint; as a verb, it means to make holy or to honor as sacred.
Hallow Name History & Origins
In Old English, hālga was used to render Latin sanctus in Christian writing, and its plural, hālgan, came to mean the saints collectively. That sense survives in All Hallows, the feast of All Saints on November 1, whose eve gave English Halloween (from "All Hallows' even"), and in the older name Hallowmas for the feast itself. The related verb hallow, "to make holy," is familiar from the line "hallowed be thy name" in the Lord's Prayer.
Evidence for Hallow as a personal name is limited, and the name is best understood through the English noun and verb for holiness. Old English and Old Norse did use closely related personal names from the same root - the Old English Halga and Old Norse Helgi, both carrying the sense "holy" - but those are separate name forms with their own histories. Hallow is also the name of a village in Worcestershire, England; place-name use and personal-name use are distinct.
How Popular is the Name Hallow?
Hallow has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #12,365 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #12,365 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #12,593 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #14,189 | 6 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Hallow Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You attract success and money. You are a lover of nature and do not need others for your happiness. You are self sufficient. You strive for material success and power and have business sense. You possess strong organizational abilities, can be a good manager, and executive by nature. You are capable of great achievement in business and finance. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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