Hollye
Hollye was last recorded in 2007, when 8 babies were given it; 445 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hollye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hollye mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hollye 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 Hollye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,115, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1984, the peak
Hollye peaked in 1984, when 19 girls were given it, #4,045 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | #13,115 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,335 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,988 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,790 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,042 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,088 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,632 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,008 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,471 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,334 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 12 | #5,785 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,045 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,167 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,525 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,428 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,067 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,361 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,134 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,288 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,022 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,219 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,304 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,284 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,640 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,641 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,115 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,181 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,900 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,922 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,458 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,481 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,747 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,112 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,097 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,239 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,828 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,085 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,089 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,011 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,522 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,417 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hollye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hollye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hollye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hollye, and how old are they?
An estimated 411 Americans named Hollye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 42 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 450 people named Hollye (444 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 421 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 241,652 babies since 1880, Hollye is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 873 babies recorded by SSA was a Hollye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Hollye
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 Hollye and names like it
- Compare Hollye and HollyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sHollye peaked in 1984.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hollye since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Hollye: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Hollye.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Hollye alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with HMost given first.