Holton
Holton was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,055 among boys’ names; 1,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Holton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Holton?
#3,055 among boys’ names, 2025
Holton fell from #2,784 in 2015 to #3,055 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 22.4 to 23.4 per million.
51 babies in 2021, the peak
Holton peaked in 2021, when 51 boys were given it, #2,561 among boys’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,055 | 23.4 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,066 | 23.2 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,746 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,648 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 51 | #2,561 | 29.2 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,703 | 26.7 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,159 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,324 | 18.7 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,814 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,250 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #2,784 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,559 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,222 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,569 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,820 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,144 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,669 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,792 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,046 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,162 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,532 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,395 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,029 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,778 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,970 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,385 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,436 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,270 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,120 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,989 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,902 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,139 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,094 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,817 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,891 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,623 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,955 | 5.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,129 | 2.7 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,735 | 2.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,938 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,328 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,637 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,368 | 4.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,740 | 4.1 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,752 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,007 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,902 | 4.8 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,250 | 4.6 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,926 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,937 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,913 | 8.8 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,051 | 5.5 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,926 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,518 | 6.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,595 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,775 | 10.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Holton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Holton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Holton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Holton, and how old are they?
An estimated 958 Americans named Holton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 771 people named Holton (9 women and girls, 762 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 727 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
Where are babies named Holton born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,718 | 1.0× |
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 Holton 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,466 babies since 1880, Holton is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 58 babies (69%), 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 Holton
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 Holton and names like it
- Compare Holton and HoltenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHolton peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Holton since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Holton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Holton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.