How rare is the name Hollie?

15,633 people in the United States have the first name Hollie, about 1 in 19,320. It ranks #1,852 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

HOLLIE

#1,852

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
15,633
About
1 in 19,320
This common or more
77.4%
Who bears it

Of the 15,633 people named Hollie, 87.5% reported their origin as White, 4% as Black and 3.6% as two or more races. 97.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Hollie peaked in 1983, when 662 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1983
Births that year
662
In 2025*
60 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 19,906 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Hollie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #775. The largest share of babies named Hollie, 34.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1880s#1,48772
1890s#1,68691
1900s#1,804112
1910s#1,801389
1920s#2,117436
1930s#2,254348
1940s#2,230431
1950s#1,843853
1960s#1,4601,463
1970s#7754,900
1980s#7865,203
1990s#1,3432,884
2000s#2,6271,396
2010s#3,751922
2020s#4,581406
Before 19010.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–274.2%
Silent Generation 1928–453.3%
Baby boom 1946–648%
Generation X 1965–8032.2%
Millennials 1981–9634.4%
Generation Z 1997–1212%
2013 and later4.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Hollie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Hollie has been most common in Utah (3.2×), Louisiana (2.1×), and Tennessee (1.9×), and least common in New Jersey (0.16×).

14,231 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Hollie, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Hollie ranks #13,883 of 156,621, with 2,083 people. See Hollie as a last name

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