Holley

Holley is the 1,192nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 28,921 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,300.

By the numbers

People: 28,921
Rank: 1,192nd
How common: 1 in 10,300
Per 100,000: 9.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an English surname, spelling variant of Holly.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.0%
Black, not Hispanic 28.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Holley

Also a first name

Holley has been given to 4,690 American babies as a first name since 1911, peaking in 1984. 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.