Meaning not yet researched.
Holley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,110 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,110 in 1974; #3,737 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Holley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,737 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #1,110.
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Holley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,110 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 108 (1984).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Holley, making it the 3,737th most common girls’ name of the year, up 585 places from #4,322 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 33 girls named Holley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,110, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 108, in 1984. For comparison, it was #3,317 in 2015 and #3,129 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Holley in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 4,690 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 922 babies named Holley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 425 US girls were named Holley; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Holly (206,845 babies since 1880), Hollie (19,906 babies since 1880) and Holli (8,748 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Holley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,737 | — | — |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,322 | — | — |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,848 | — | — |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,521 | — | — |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,365 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,725 | — | — |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,611 | — | — |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,317 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,338 | — | — |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,469 | — | — |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,691 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 1989 | 86 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1988 | 94 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1987 | 98 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1985 | 104 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1984 | 108 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1983 | 89 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1982 | 84 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1981 | 88 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1980 | 91 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1979 | 86 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1978 | 92 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1977 | 86 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1975 | 80 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1974 | 105 | #1,110 | 8 | #3,982 |
| 1973 | 81 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1971 | 87 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1970 | 86 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,845 | 5 | #4,289 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,634 | — | — |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,214 | 5 | #4,289 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,362 | 5 | #4,247 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,733 | 7 | #3,383 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,996 | 5 | #4,099 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,262 | 7 | #3,283 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,864 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,276 | 6 | #3,529 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,023 | 6 | #3,494 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,879 | 7 | #3,141 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,838 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,653 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,024 | 8 | #2,733 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,618 | 7 | #3,077 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,893 | 8 | #2,803 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,740 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,005 | — | — |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,428 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,468 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,133 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,249 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,251 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,558 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,913 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,514 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,680 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,685 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,601 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,595 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,483 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,025 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,701 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,864 |
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).