Holliday

At the 2020 census, 19,927 Americans bore the surname Holliday — 1,760th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,000.

By the numbers

People: 19,927
Rank: 1,760th
How common: 1 in 15,000
Per 100,000: 6.7

Where the name comes from

English surname from the noun holiday. Compare Christmas, and by extension the French surname Noël, Noel.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.2%
Black, not Hispanic 24.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Holliday

Judy Holliday (1921–1965)American actress, comedian and singer
Doc Holliday (1851–1887)gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West
Polly Holliday (1937–2025)American actress
Jennifer Holliday (born 1960)American actress and singer
Matt Holliday (born 1980)American professional baseball player, outfielder
Rob Holliday (born 1979)musician

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

Surnames like Holliday

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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.