Holden

Holden is the 1,048th most common surname in the United States, shared by 32,979 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,063.

By the numbers

People: 32,979
Rank: 1,048th
How common: 1 in 9,063
Per 100,000: 11.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Holden described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 74.0%
Black, not Hispanic 17.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Holden

William Holden (1918–1981)American actor
Laurie Holden (born 1969)American-Canadian actress
Amanda Holden (born 1971)English actress
Stuart Holden (born 1985)American soccer player
Jon Robert Holden (born 1976)American-Russian basketball player
Gina Holden (born 1975)Canadian actress
Edward S. Holden (1846–1914)American astronomer
Alexandra Holden (born 1977)American actress

People named Holden with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Holden

Also a first name

Holden has been given to 32,795 American babies as a first name since 1902, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.