girls:
4.4k births since 1937
#2570 (55th percentile)
boys:
204 births since 1911
#4382 (4th percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1911
#4019 (48th percentile)
The name Holley is the #4,019 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,615 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 48.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,570 (55.0% percentile) for all time with 4,411 births since 1937. For boys, it ranks #4,382 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 204 births since 1911.
Holley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1937 for girls). Birth data for Holley is available in 100 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023 (83 years for girls and 31 years for boys). 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 Holley has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.6% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1944, the name was more popular for boys (82.9% boys from 1911 to 1943), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (98.3% girls from 1944 to 2023).
For girls, Holley reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 13.4% percentile (ranked #646) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 67 births per million (ranked 13.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Holley ranks #908 for girls (4.1% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 37.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Holley reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #544) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1974.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Holley".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Holley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.4% confident that Holley is pronounced as HAH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAW-lee, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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