girls:
265 births since 1994
#5451 (5th percentile)
boys:
30.1k births since 1902
#666 (85th percentile)
overall:
30.4k births since 1902
#1454 (81st percentile)
The name Holden is the #1,454 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 30,408 recorded births since 1902. This represents the 81.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #666 (85.5% percentile) for all time with 30,143 births since 1902. For girls, it ranks #5,451 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 265 births since 1994.
Holden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1902 (1902 for boys and 1994 for girls). Birth data for Holden is available in 92 out of the 122 years between 1902 and 2023 (92 years for boys and 25 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Holden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Holden reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 76.8% percentile (ranked #213) with 890 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 890 births per million (ranked 75.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Holden ranks #275 for boys (69.9% percentile) with 639 births per million, which is 71.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Holden reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #941) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Holden ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 63.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Holden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Holden is pronounced as HOHL-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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