Hollie
Hollie is a girl's name that peaked in 1983, when it was the 347th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,822nd. About 17,000 Hollies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hollie boys named Hollie
Girls and boys called Hollie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Hollie crossed from boys to girls in 1946, having already crossed in 1914, and has stayed there for 80 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 114 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,906
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1983
- Best rank
- 347th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,822nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 18,453 / 1,453
How old the living Hollies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,906 babies given the name since 1880, about 17,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
Spelling variant of Holly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hollies
- Hollie Stevens (1982–2012)American pornographic actress
- Hollie Webb (born 1990)British field hockey player
- Hollie Grima (born 1983)Australian basketball player
People named Hollie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hollie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hollie is most concentrated in Utah (3.2×), Louisiana (2.1×), Tennessee (1.9×), Alabama (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1983
The most popular girls’ names the year Hollie peaked:
Hollie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Hollie | 17,999 | 54th |
| Scotland girls | Hollie | 2,587 | 38th |
| Ireland girls | Hollie | 1,537 | 77th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Hollie | 926 | 42nd |
| France girls | Hollie | 10 | 6,934th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Hollie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.