girls:
5.1k births since 1895
#2367 (59th percentile)
boys:
15.5k births since 1880
#935 (80th percentile)
overall:
20.6k births since 1880
#1783 (77th percentile)
The name Hollis is the #1,783 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,638 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #935 (79.6% percentile) for all time with 15,538 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,367 (58.6% percentile) for all time with 5,100 births since 1895.
Hollis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1895 for girls).
The name Hollis has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 57.8% of babies named Hollis were boys.
For boys, Hollis reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 42.8% percentile (ranked #315) with 258 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 337 births per million (ranked 19.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hollis ranks #698 for boys (23.4% percentile) with 120 births per million, which is 35.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Hollis reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 19.6% percentile (ranked #559) with 73 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 93 births per million (ranked 17.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Hollis is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #792 (16.4% percentile) with 91 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hollis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hollis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.1% confident that Hollis is pronounced as HAH-lihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAH-lees, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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