Holt
Holt was given to 81 boys in 2025, #1,924 among boys’ names; 1,924 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,730 Americans named Holt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Holt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Holt?
#1,924 among boys’ names, 2025
Holt rose from #2,095 in 2015 to #1,924 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 35.0 to 47.4 per million.
87 babies in 2019, the peak
Holt peaked in 2019, when 87 boys were given it, #1,778 among boys’ names. The 81 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #1,924 | 47.4 |
| 2024 | 83 | #1,909 | 48.2 |
| 2023 | 84 | #1,885 | 49.1 |
| 2022 | 83 | #1,895 | 47.5 |
| 2021 | 76 | #1,968 | 43.4 |
| 2020 | 72 | #1,984 | 41.7 |
| 2019 | 87 | #1,778 | 48.5 |
| 2018 | 80 | #1,878 | 44.0 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,249 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,071 | 35.8 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,095 | 35.0 |
| 2014 | 53 | #2,410 | 27.6 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,235 | 30.7 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,217 | 31.1 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,519 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 52 | #2,418 | 27.1 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,496 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,972 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 41 | #2,885 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,107 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,480 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,675 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,140 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,574 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,016 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,108 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,891 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,752 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,791 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,451 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,278 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,388 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,502 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,621 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,805 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,699 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,133 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,282 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,996 | 9.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,461 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,715 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,752 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,058 | 5.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,305 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,337 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,805 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,222 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,887 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,379 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,145 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,938 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,442 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,806 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,176 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,099 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,615 | 2.9 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,528 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,529 | 3.2 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,978 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,327 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,637 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,795 | 3.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,766 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,006 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,127 | 6.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,009 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,020 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,250 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,513 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,460 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,925 | 5.4 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,844 | 9.1 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,684 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,857 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,982 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,615 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,376 | 7.6 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,215 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,774 | 10.7 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,025 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,701 | 11.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,630 | 26.6 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,320 | 37.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Holt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Holt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Holt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Holt, and how old are they?
1,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,924 Americans ever recorded as Holt. The median Holt alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,372 people named Holt (58 women and girls, 1,314 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,291 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 42 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 515 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 944 |
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 Holt born?
The states with the most babies named Holt are Texas, Ohio and Alabama, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,373 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,163 | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | #803 | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 5 | #561 | 0.2× |
Where Holt is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Holt is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 boys’ 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 Holt with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Holt
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 Holt and names like it
- Compare Holt and LaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHolt peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Holt since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Holt.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Holt alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.