Hollister

At the 2020 census, 5,481 Americans bore the surname Hollister — 6,028th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 54,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,481
Rank: 6,028th
How common: 1 in 54,500
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

The surname is a feminine derivative of Hollier, itself from Old French holier (“adulterer, lecher”), in this case extended to refer to a female brothel-keeper, (i.e. The originally feminine occupational suffix -ster has given rise to many such personal names which today might instead be either masculine or ungendered altogether.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.1%
Black, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hollister

Nancy Hollister (born 1949)American politician
Brett Hollister (born 1966)New Zealand rower

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

Surnames like Hollister

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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.