In 2025, 40 US boys were named Holton, making it the 3,056th most common boys’ name of the year, up 11 places from #3,067 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 40 boys named Holton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,562, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #2,785 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Holton in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 1,060 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 364 babies named Holton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 404 US boys were named Holton; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.