Holly Girl
How popular is Holly?
#416 girl name in 2025
751 baby girls were named Holly in the US in 2025, making it the 416th most popular girl name.
Holly popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #416 for girls (▲ 4 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 751 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+15% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #491 in 2015, #479 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1983 (6,388 girls) |
| Highest rank | #48 in 1979 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1893 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.5% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Holly counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Holly family of names ranked #363 for girls in 2025 (#373 the year before), with 879 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Holly | 751 | 85% |
| Hollie | 60 | 7% |
| Holley | 40 | 5% |
| Holli | 12 | 1% |
| Holy | 10 | 1% |
| Holleigh | 6 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Holly is most popular
Babies named Holly per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Montana: 1.4 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- Idaho: 1.3 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- Kansas: 1.0 per 1,000 (57 girls)
- Colorado: 0.9 per 1,000 (97 girls)
- Washington: 0.8 per 1,000 (120 girls)
Holly by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 30 | #1,091 |
| 1900s | 35 | #1,229 |
| 1910s | 133 | #1,656 |
| 1920s | 199 | #1,668 |
| 1930s | 415 | #824 |
| 1940s | 3,961 | #294 |
| 1950s | 18,633 | #144 |
| 1960s | 32,144 | #87 |
| 1970s | 50,464 | #48 |
| 1980s | 49,653 | #48 |
| 1990s | 27,072 | #89 |
| 2000s | 11,597 | #189 |
| 2010s | 6,785 | #409 |
| 2020s | 4,183 | #416 |
Girl names about as popular as Holly
Questions
- Is Holly a boy or girl name?
- Holly is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Holly were girls.
- How popular is the name Holly?
- 751 baby girls were named Holly in the US in 2025, making it the 416th most popular girl name.
- When was Holly most popular?
- Holly peaked in 1983, when 6,388 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #48, held for 2 years starting in 1979.
- How many people are named Holly?
- 206,845 babies have been named Holly in the US since 1880. We estimate about 192,738 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 46.
- Where is Holly most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Holly was most common in Montana, at 1.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.