Holiday — #5816 US girls' name
414 babies named Holiday in U.S. Social Security records since 1952, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 67% of names given to girls today.
36% of everyone ever named Holiday was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Holiday in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Holiday
The Social Security Administration has registered 414 babies named Holiday between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Holiday currently holds the #5816 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Holiday performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Holiday shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 40 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Holiday in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Holiday in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 414 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Holiday at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Holiday popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1952
- Peak year (2019)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 73 years of records
Currently ranks #5816 among girls.
414 total births across 73 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 22 births in a single year.
Holiday by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 149 births that decade — 36% of Holiday's all-time total
Holiday decade highlights
- Peak decade 149 births
- Runner-up 94 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Holiday's strongest decade
149 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Holiday by state
Where Holiday concentrates geographically — total births since 1952
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 40 | 9.7% |
40 of 414 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 9.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1952–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.