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Holly
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1918 · #1242
Origin
English
Also recorded for girls:739 in 2024 (#420)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No boys were recorded as Holly in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1918 with 32 babies, ranked #1242.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,541 boys have been named Holly since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Holly per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 351 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 273 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 322 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 299 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 231 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 18 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
As an Irish surname, calque of mac cuilinn (“holly”) (see McCullen) and sometimes McQuillan. As an English surname, variant of Holley. As a Czech and Slovak surname, variant of Holý, Holy. Also as a locational English surname, from Old English hol leah (“wood, clearing, meadow”), compare Hollywood. Also as an English surname, short form of Holiday. Also as an English surname, after the holly tree. As a feminine given name popularized by Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's (especially the 1961 film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn).
- A female given name from English.
- (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Holly, CC BY-SA 4.0.