Holland

Holland is the 319th most common surname in the United States, shared by 97,501 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,066.

By the numbers

People: 97,501
Rank: 319th
How common: 1 in 3,066
Per 100,000: 32.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”). A popular but false etymology holds that it is derived from hol land (“hollow land”), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English region (Holland, Lincolnshire).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.9%
Black, not Hispanic 17.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Holland

Agnieszka Holland (born 1948)Polish film director and screenwriter
Willa Holland (born 1991)American actress
André Holland (born 1979)American actor
Dexter Holland (born 1965)American rock musician
Tom Holland (born 1943)American scriptwriter and director
James Holland (born 1989)Australian association football player
Matt Holland (born 1974)Irish footballer
Dave Holland (born 1946)British jazz musician

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

Surnames like Holland

Also a first name

Holland has been given to 11,007 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 2025. 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.