Hollis

Hollis is the 1,270th most common surname in the United States, shared by 27,084 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,000.

By the numbers

People: 27,084
Rank: 1,270th
How common: 1 in 11,000
Per 100,000: 9.1

Where the name comes from

English topographical surname from the noun holly. Compare Hollen, Holley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.7%
Black, not Hispanic 28.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hollis

Mark Hollis (1955–2019)British singer
Helia Bravo Hollis (1901–2001)Mexican botanist, botanical collector, university teacher and director of the botanical garden at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

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

Surnames like Hollis

Also a first name

Hollis has been given to 21,512 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.