Meaning not yet researched.
Holden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,140 in 2025. Its best rank was #217 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #217 in 2018; #297 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Holden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#297 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #217.
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Holden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,140 boys in 2025. Peak: #217 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 1,732 (2018).
In 2025, 1,140 US boys were named Holden, making it the 297th most common boys’ name of the year, down 16 places from #281 in 2024. That is 69 fewer than the 1,209 boys named Holden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #217, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,732. For comparison, it was #291 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Holden in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 5 babies. In all, 32,795 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 13,196 babies named Holden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,986 US boys were named Holden; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,732. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,498 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Holden ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #90 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Holdyn, Holdan and Holdon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Holdyn (743), Holdan (73), Holdon (49), Holdin (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Holden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 21 | #90 | #192 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #104 | — |
| North Dakota | 10 | #129 | — |
| South Dakota | 10 | #131 | #266 |
| Maine | 10 | #133 | — |
| Mississippi | 21 | #155 | #212 |
| Iowa | 26 | #165 | #242 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | #165 | #237 |
| Ohio | 82 | #165 | #216 |
| Indiana | 45 | #191 | #213 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | #204 | #239 |
| South Carolina | 27 | #210 | #196 |
| Arkansas | 17 | #211 | #321 |
| Kentucky | 26 | #216 | #196 |
| North Carolina | 57 | #219 | #135 |
| Delaware | 5 | #223 | — |
| Missouri | 32 | #224 | #328 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #232 | #254 |
| Utah | 22 | #237 | #194 |
| Michigan | 43 | #237 | #273 |
| Tennessee | 37 | #239 | #336 |
| Pennsylvania | 51 | #240 | #258 |
| Oregon | 18 | #240 | #311 |
| Virginia | 33 | #264 | #226 |
| Idaho | 10 | #264 | #138 |
| Alabama | 20 | #278 | #211 |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #292 | #260 |
| Illinois | 36 | #300 | #317 |
| Colorado | 21 | #314 | #241 |
| Minnesota | 19 | #317 | #262 |
| Washington | 23 | #329 | #206 |
| Arizona | 23 | #337 | #365 |
| Kansas | 11 | #338 | #326 |
| Georgia | 31 | #380 | #395 |
| Florida | 50 | #386 | #364 |
| Texas | 89 | #400 | #316 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #413 | #251 |
| New York | 34 | #484 | #395 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #505 | #281 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #528 | #284 |
| Maryland | 9 | #531 | #319 |
| Nevada | 5 | #542 | #374 |
| California | 45 | #630 | #416 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #729 | #361 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,841 | 1,140 | #297 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,755 | 1,209 | #281 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,396 | 1,176 | #286 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,287 | 1,219 | #285 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,633 | 1,507 | #236 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,141 | 1,648 | #227 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,833 | 1,468 | #250 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,221 | 1,732 | #217 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,478 | 1,531 | #242 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,090 | 1,356 | #270 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,637 | 1,254 | #291 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,219 | 1,218 | #291 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,422 | 1,206 | #289 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,624 | 1,177 | #296 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,598 | 1,114 | #299 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,717 | 1,011 | #317 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,886 | 955 | #335 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,556 | 877 | #357 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,120 | 812 | #378 |
| 2006 | — | — | 777 | #385 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,251 | 830 | #357 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,029 | 747 | #371 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,526 | 619 | #415 |
| 2002 | — | — | 614 | #413 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,161 | 547 | #443 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,793 | 527 | #453 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,705 | 542 | #431 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,023 | 562 | #418 |
| 1997 | — | — | 451 | #477 |
| 1996 | — | — | 323 | #566 |
| 1995 | — | — | 299 | #598 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,213 | 298 | #603 |
| 1993 | — | — | 267 | #631 |
| 1992 | — | — | 224 | #693 |
| 1991 | — | — | 234 | #662 |
| 1990 | — | — | 182 | #755 |
| 1989 | — | — | 146 | #820 |
| 1988 | — | — | 143 | #794 |
| 1987 | — | — | 107 | #910 |
| 1986 | — | — | 58 | #1,273 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #3,004 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,742 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,129 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,570 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,296 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,711 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,630 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,284 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,229 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,610 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,090 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,739 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,170 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,216 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,691 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,876 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,288 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,937 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,153 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,210 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,190 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,913 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,382 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,342 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,320 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,067 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,594 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,529 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,933 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,975 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,761 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,371 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,739 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,276 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,751 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,766 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,780 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,903 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,550 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,959 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,941 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,959 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,643 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,689 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,702 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,705 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,857 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,451 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,247 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,594 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,774 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,024 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,215 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).