Hollis — #1053 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Hollis

The Social Security Administration has registered 15,748 babies named Hollis between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hollis currently holds the #1053 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 294 babies received it in a single year. Hollis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,289 additional births since 1895.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hollis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,661 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Hollis shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,877 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Hollis in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hollis 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 15,748 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.