girls:
18.3k births since 1886
#1091 (81st percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1880
#3191 (30th percentile)
overall:
19.8k births since 1880
#1822 (76th percentile)
The name Hollie is the #1,822 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,791 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,091 (80.9% percentile) for all time with 18,338 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #3,191 (30.4% percentile) for all time with 1,453 births since 1880.
Hollie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1886 for girls). Birth data for Hollie is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (130 years for girls and 95 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 Hollie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.7% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1897, the name was more popular for boys (66.7% boys from 1880 to 1896), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (93.0% girls from 1897 to 2023).
For girls, Hollie reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 58.7% percentile (ranked #321) with 365 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 377 births per million (ranked 57.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Hollie ranks #879 for girls (7.2% percentile) with 42 births per million, which is 11.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Hollie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #500) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 95 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hollie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Hollie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Holly" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Holly..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Hollie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.3% confident that Hollie is pronounced as HAH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAW-lee, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like HH AA1 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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