Holt

At the 2020 census, 82,517 Americans bore the surname Holt — 380th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,622.

By the numbers

People: 82,517
Rank: 380th
How common: 1 in 3,622
Per 100,000: 27.6

Where the name comes from

English, Dutch, north German, Norwegian and Danish surname, all from the noun holt (“copse, woodland”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.5%
Black, not Hispanic 14.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Holt

Claire Holt (born 1988)Australian actress
Harold Holt (1908–1967)Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia
Olivia Holt (born 1997)American actress and singer
Grant Holt (born 1981)English professional footballer
Anne Holt (born 1958)Norwegian writer, lawyer and politician
Tim Holt (1919–1973)American actor
John Holt (1923–1985)American educator and author
Gary Holt (born 1964)American guitarist

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

Surnames like Holt

Also a first name

Holt has been given to 1,924 American babies as a first name since 1906, peaking in 2019. 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.