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Holdyn vs Holland

American parents have registered 11,007 Hollands since 1880, against 743 Holdyns. Holland is still ahead, with 686 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Holdyn against Holland, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Holdyn Holland

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Holland has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Holdyn had 32 and Holland had 175.

Side by side

  Holdyn Holland
Total US births 74311,007
Most in one year 50686
Babies in 2025 17686
Estimated living today 7409,900
Median age today 99
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 2,895th boys549th girls
Rank in 2025 5,399th549th
First recorded 19931888
Girls / boys 53 / 6907,835 / 3,172

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Holdyn and Holland.