Meaning not yet researched.
Holly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 751 in 2025. Its best rank was #48 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #48 in 1983; #416 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Holly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#416 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #48.
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Holly: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 751 girls in 2025. Peak: #48 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 6,388 (1983).
In 2025, 751 US girls were named Holly, making it the 416th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4 places from #420 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 745 girls named Holly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #48, reached in 1983. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,388. For comparison, it was #491 in 2015 and #266 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Holly in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 206,845 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 50,656 babies named Holly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,665 US girls were named Holly; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 751. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,140 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Holly ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #163 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hollie (19,906 babies since 1880), Holli (8,748 babies since 1880) and Holley (4,690 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hollee, Hollye and Holy 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hollee (743), Hollye (445), Holy (198), Huley (27).
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 Holly in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 5 | #163 | — |
| Idaho | 11 | #207 | — |
| Montana | 5 | #230 | — |
| Minnesota | 24 | #236 | #572 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #253 | — |
| Kansas | 12 | #269 | #486 |
| Connecticut | 12 | #273 | #467 |
| Colorado | 22 | #284 | #247 |
| Washington | 25 | #293 | #326 |
| Indiana | 24 | #296 | #639 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #301 | #606 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #310 | — |
| Virginia | 27 | #313 | #400 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #317 | #598 |
| Utah | 14 | #319 | #282 |
| Missouri | 19 | #319 | #535 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #319 | #336 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #323 | #473 |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #324 | #535 |
| Arizona | 21 | #337 | #471 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #347 | #382 |
| Illinois | 27 | #391 | #432 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #411 | #542 |
| California | 74 | #451 | #445 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #459 | #579 |
| Nevada | 6 | #464 | #384 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #480 | #357 |
| Michigan | 17 | #492 | #350 |
| Oregon | 7 | #515 | #619 |
| Texas | 62 | #515 | #585 |
| Georgia | 22 | #516 | #750 |
| Ohio | 20 | #518 | #445 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #532 | #727 |
| New York | 29 | #573 | #565 |
| Florida | 30 | #588 | #527 |
| Iowa | 5 | #613 | #381 |
| Maryland | 8 | #618 | #947 |
| Alabama | 7 | #664 | #512 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #709 | #557 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 751 | #416 | — | — |
| 2024 | 745 | #420 | — | — |
| 2023 | 682 | #453 | — | — |
| 2022 | 693 | #457 | — | — |
| 2021 | 673 | #465 | — | — |
| 2020 | 639 | #479 | — | — |
| 2019 | 651 | #483 | — | — |
| 2018 | 608 | #513 | — | — |
| 2017 | 634 | #493 | — | — |
| 2016 | 589 | #527 | — | — |
| 2015 | 653 | #491 | — | — |
| 2014 | 714 | #448 | — | — |
| 2013 | 683 | #451 | — | — |
| 2012 | 740 | #425 | — | — |
| 2011 | 738 | #420 | — | — |
| 2010 | 775 | #409 | — | — |
| 2009 | 858 | #381 | — | — |
| 2008 | 907 | #364 | — | — |
| 2007 | 976 | #339 | — | — |
| 2006 | 955 | #346 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,040 | #310 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,119 | #293 | 8 | #8,417 |
| 2003 | 1,227 | #261 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,363 | #231 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,462 | #219 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,690 | #189 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,749 | #180 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,921 | #163 | 5 | #10,214 |
| 1997 | 2,056 | #152 | 5 | #9,832 |
| 1996 | 2,438 | #130 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,544 | #126 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,924 | #112 | 8 | #6,608 |
| 1993 | 3,032 | #108 | 5 | #9,271 |
| 1992 | 3,347 | #99 | 8 | #6,345 |
| 1991 | 3,289 | #105 | 7 | #6,811 |
| 1990 | 3,772 | #89 | 5 | #8,631 |
| 1989 | 3,893 | #79 | 19 | #3,138 |
| 1988 | 4,217 | #72 | 18 | #3,012 |
| 1987 | 4,259 | #71 | 17 | #2,999 |
| 1986 | 4,838 | #63 | 29 | #2,026 |
| 1985 | 5,602 | #56 | 25 | #2,191 |
| 1984 | 5,928 | #53 | 17 | #2,743 |
| 1983 | 6,388 | #48 | 27 | #1,976 |
| 1982 | 4,682 | #61 | 17 | #2,754 |
| 1981 | 4,564 | #63 | 29 | #1,918 |
| 1980 | 5,282 | #52 | 24 | #2,182 |
| 1979 | 5,488 | #48 | 20 | #2,414 |
| 1978 | 4,972 | #55 | 23 | #2,098 |
| 1977 | 5,463 | #52 | 19 | #2,397 |
| 1976 | 5,173 | #56 | 21 | #2,197 |
| 1975 | 5,047 | #55 | 10 | #3,523 |
| 1974 | 5,144 | #56 | 22 | #2,016 |
| 1973 | 5,114 | #54 | 26 | #1,751 |
| 1972 | 4,376 | #71 | 20 | #2,038 |
| 1971 | 4,747 | #76 | 18 | #2,236 |
| 1970 | 4,940 | #74 | 13 | #2,673 |
| 1969 | 4,123 | #87 | 13 | #2,474 |
| 1968 | 3,421 | #103 | 18 | #1,919 |
| 1967 | 3,153 | #109 | 22 | #1,684 |
| 1966 | 3,398 | #101 | 15 | #2,086 |
| 1965 | 3,359 | #113 | 15 | #2,124 |
| 1964 | 3,478 | #121 | 18 | #1,931 |
| 1963 | 3,135 | #132 | 14 | #2,248 |
| 1962 | 2,922 | #148 | 11 | #2,582 |
| 1961 | 2,575 | #161 | 11 | #2,617 |
| 1960 | 2,580 | #161 | 16 | #2,070 |
| 1959 | 2,290 | #168 | 19 | #1,888 |
| 1958 | 2,242 | #168 | 19 | #1,865 |
| 1957 | 2,394 | #157 | 18 | #1,917 |
| 1956 | 2,325 | #162 | 25 | #1,584 |
| 1955 | 2,504 | #144 | 15 | #2,083 |
| 1954 | 2,092 | #166 | 14 | #2,155 |
| 1953 | 1,566 | #199 | 15 | #2,070 |
| 1952 | 1,317 | #214 | 17 | #1,895 |
| 1951 | 1,069 | #237 | 18 | #1,799 |
| 1950 | 834 | #266 | 18 | #1,775 |
| 1949 | 631 | #307 | 12 | #2,275 |
| 1948 | 672 | #294 | 19 | #1,734 |
| 1947 | 708 | #295 | 22 | #1,623 |
| 1946 | 507 | #331 | 21 | #1,581 |
| 1945 | 382 | #353 | 13 | #1,971 |
| 1944 | 305 | #415 | 12 | #2,122 |
| 1943 | 318 | #410 | 18 | #1,733 |
| 1942 | 230 | #489 | 13 | #2,088 |
| 1941 | 134 | #611 | 17 | #1,720 |
| 1940 | 74 | #829 | 15 | #1,843 |
| 1939 | 70 | #832 | 18 | #1,601 |
| 1938 | 66 | #867 | 12 | #2,126 |
| 1937 | 48 | #1,025 | 14 | #1,950 |
| 1936 | 49 | #981 | 12 | #2,119 |
| 1935 | 44 | #1,044 | 10 | #2,451 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,386 | 16 | #1,810 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,492 | 17 | #1,737 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,302 | 20 | #1,618 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,408 | 10 | #2,557 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,586 | 22 | #1,582 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,734 | 20 | #1,701 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,704 | 14 | #2,210 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,696 | 21 | #1,717 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,957 | 17 | #1,943 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,145 | 24 | #1,553 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,177 | 28 | #1,433 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,215 | 25 | #1,524 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,860 | 18 | #1,923 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,428 | 23 | #1,612 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,113 | 24 | #1,566 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,718 | 17 | #1,924 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,432 | 32 | #1,244 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,805 | 21 | #1,612 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,903 | 16 | #1,891 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,836 | 16 | #1,828 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,775 | 18 | #1,463 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,951 | 16 | #1,348 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,049 | 11 | #1,575 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,711 | 6 | #1,630 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,364 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,386 | 7 | #1,155 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,319 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #999 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,682 | 6 | #1,042 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #819 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #1,014 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #783 |
| 1885 | — | — | 6 | #877 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #977 |
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).