Holli
Holli was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,554 among girls’ names; 8,748 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,260 Americans named Holli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 36 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Holli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Holli mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Holli is “a female given name from English.”
A rare spelling variant of Holly.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Holli?
#8,554 among girls’ names, 2025
Holli fell from #6,555 in 2015 to #8,554 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 7.5 per million.
288 babies in 1983, the peak
Holli peaked in 1983, when 288 babies were given it (283 girls, #616 among girls’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,554 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,161 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,785 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,770 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,033 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,734 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,785 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,520 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,372 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,744 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,555 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,548 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,363 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,739 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,970 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,434 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,218 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,036 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,499 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,817 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,758 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,895 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,470 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,585 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 76 | #2,153 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,108 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,022 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 106 | #1,557 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,537 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 117 | #1,416 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 132 | #1,273 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 158 | #1,131 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 180 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 172 | #1,061 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 168 | #1,076 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 215 | #894 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 237 | #804 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 235 | #794 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 247 | #732 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 251 | #716 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 262 | #685 | 0.15 |
| 1984 | 250 | #678 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 283 | #616 | 0.17 |
| 1982 | 221 | #752 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 221 | #751 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 243 | #701 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 266 | #656 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 230 | #692 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 233 | #674 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 247 | #629 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 217 | #689 | 0.15 |
| 1974 | 274 | #580 | 0.19 |
| 1973 | 240 | #632 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 219 | #676 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 257 | #641 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 242 | #663 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 201 | #705 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 151 | #828 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 139 | #857 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 114 | #953 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 106 | #1,017 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 129 | #923 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 109 | #1,023 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 81 | #1,226 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 87 | #1,186 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 77 | #1,249 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 60 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,782 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,941 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,356 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,622 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,603 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,125 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,228 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Holli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Holli has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 79 years of records.
Girls and boys named Holli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Holli, and how old are they?
8,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 8,748 Americans ever recorded as Holli. The median Holli alive today is 44 years old; half are between 36 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 7,607 people named Holli (7,600 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,315 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 721 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 915 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 219 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Holli born?
The states with the most babies named Holli are Texas, California and Ohio, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 747 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 519 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 414 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 358 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 268 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 265 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 209 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 200 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 197 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 194 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Holli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Holli is most over-represented in Utah: since 1946 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Holli with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 241,652 babies since 1880, Holli is the third most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 873 babies (1.4%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Holli
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Holli and names like it
- Compare Holli and HollyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sHolli peaked in 1983.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Holli since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Holli: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Holli.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Holli alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.