Holten
Holten was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,285 among boys’ names; 406 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Holten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Holten?
#5,285 among boys’ names, 2025
Holten rose from #6,461 in 2015 to #5,285 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 10.5 per million.
22 babies in 2019, the peak
Holten peaked in 2019, when 22 boys were given it, #4,530 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,285 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,302 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,944 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,765 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,199 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,919 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,530 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,169 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,811 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,199 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,461 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,105 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,042 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,568 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,509 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,836 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,396 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,324 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,752 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,617 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,875 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,271 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,013 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,919 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,127 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,891 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,827 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,379 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Holten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Holten has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Holten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Holten, and how old are they?
An estimated 402 Americans named Holten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 291 people named Holten (1 woman or girl, 290 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 294 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,466 babies since 1880, Holten is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 58 babies (31%), again the second 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 Holten
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 Holten and names like it
- Compare Holten and HoltonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHolten peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Holten since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Holten.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Holten alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.