Holt
Holt is a boy's name that peaked in 2019, when it was the 1,777th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,919th. About 1,700 Holts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Holt
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,924
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 1,777th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,919th
- First recorded
- 1906
How old the living Holts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,924 babies given the name since 1906, about 1,700 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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.
Notable Holts
- Holt McCallany (born 1963)American actor, writer, and producer
People named Holt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Holt is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Holt is most concentrated in Texas (8.6×), North Carolina (4.6×), Tennessee (2.1×), California (0.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Holt peaked:
Related names
Holt against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.