Hollyn
Hollyn was given to 170 girls in 2025, #1,313 among girls’ names; 2,090 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Hollyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hollyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hollyn?
#1,313 among girls’ names, 2025
Hollyn rose from #3,940 in 2015 to #1,313 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.02 to 0.11 per 1,000.
170 babies in 2025, the peak
Hollyn peaked in 2025, when 170 girls were given it, #1,313 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 169 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,313 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 169 | #1,351 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,397 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 147 | #1,486 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 136 | #1,545 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 149 | #1,453 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,634 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 120 | #1,721 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 87 | #2,193 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,986 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,940 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,016 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,670 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,749 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,469 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,431 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,850 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,344 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,008 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,193 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,213 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,651 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,698 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,758 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,085 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,303 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,889 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,212 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,712 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,867 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,089 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,101 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,768 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,293 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,089 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,125 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,335 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,911 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,946 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,169 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hollyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hollyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hollyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hollyn, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,090 Americans ever recorded as Hollyn. The median Hollyn alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,175 people named Hollyn (1,164 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 121 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 466 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,480 |
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 Hollyn born?
The states with the most babies named Hollyn are Texas, Indiana and Louisiana, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,237 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | #591 | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 10 | #446 | 1.9× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #730 | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 8 | #355 | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 8 | #525 | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 7 | #665 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,265 | 0.9× |
| Arkansas | 7 | #449 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,340 | 0.7× |
Where Hollyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hollyn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1977 it was given 1.1 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 Hollyn 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,243 babies since 1880, Hollyn is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 170 of their 218 babies (78%), again the most given.
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 Hollyn
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 Hollyn and names like it
- Compare Hollyn and HollyannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHollyn peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hollyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Hollyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hollyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.