Holt — #1916 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Holt

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,842 babies named Holt between 1906 and 2024, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Holt currently holds the #1916 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 87 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Holt performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 632 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Holt shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 307 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Holt in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Holt 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 1,842 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.