as a First Name
From the vocabulary word denoting the evergreen shrub or tree (Middle English holi(n), Old English holegn). The name was first used at the beginning of the 20th century, and has been particularly popular since the 1990s. It is bestowed especially on girls born around Christmas, when sprigs of holly are traditionally taken indoors to decorate rooms.
| 263rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 235,502
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Holly per capita
- 1983
- marked the height of its popularity
99.99%
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8%
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55+
53%
30-54
30-54
27%
13-29
13-29
12%
0-12
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