Holt
#1,919 for boys in 2025, 81 births
- Peak · boys
- 1906 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,924since 1906
Holt over time
Rank among boys' names. Holt has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,919 | 81 |
| 2024 | #1,902 | 83 |
| 2023 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2022 | #1,892 | 83 |
| 2021 | #1,964 | 76 |
| 2020 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2019 | #1,777 | 87 |
| 2018 | #1,872 | 80 |
| 2017 | #2,240 | 59 |
| 2016 | #2,066 | 68 |
| 2015 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2014 | #2,402 | 53 |
| 2013 | #2,225 | 58 |
| 2012 | #2,209 | 59 |
| 2011 | #2,504 | 49 |
| 2010 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2009 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 2008 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2007 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #3,083 | 35 |
| 2005 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #3,119 | 30 |
| 2002 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #3,094 | 19 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,862 | 8 |
| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,563 | 9 |
| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #2,854 | 7 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,357 | 7 |
| 1927 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,772 | 10 |
| 1922 | — | |
| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | #2,765 | 10 |
| 1919 | #2,877 | 9 |
| 1918 | #2,543 | 11 |
| 1917 | #3,217 | 7 |
| 1916 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
| 1914 | #2,651 | 7 |
| 1913 | #2,821 | 5 |
| 1912 | #2,544 | 5 |
| 1911 | #1,537 | 6 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,253 | 5 |
| 1905 | — | |
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| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Holt! It came in at #1,253, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1906–1910, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Holt is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#881 · 1 in 6,269
- Tennessee#959 · 1 in 7,040
- Texas#1,118 · 1 in 10,267
- California#2,030 · 1 in 29,022
Best ever in a state: #522 in Mississippi, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #881 | 8 | 1 in 6,269 |
| Tennessee | #959 | 5 | 1 in 7,040 |
| Texas | #1,118 | 17 | 1 in 10,267 |
| California | #2,030 | 7 | 1 in 29,022 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
| Colorado | — | — | — |
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| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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| Wyoming | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Holt
- 17 spots since 2024 (#1,902 → #1,919)
- 58 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #1,919)
- 167 spots since 2015 (#2,086 → #1,919)
- Debuted 1906
- Peaked 1906 at #1,253 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1907, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,364 boys born in 2023 were named Holt (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,087 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,253 in 1906, was only 1 in 26,631 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.8% of all boys named Holt (632) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,253 (1906) | #1,253 |
| 1910s | 57 | #1,537 (1911) | #2,659 |
| 1920s | 45 | #2,765 (1920) | #3,388 |
| 1930s | 34 | #2,854 (1936) | #3,481 |
| 1940s | 28 | #2,563 (1943) | #3,040 |
| 1950s | 28 | #3,364 (1951) | #3,603 |
| 1960s | 40 | #2,858 (1963) | #3,442 |
| 1970s | 26 | #4,157 (1978) | #4,673 |
| 1980s | 80 | #2,942 (1987) | #4,076 |
| 1990s | 164 | #2,441 (1996) | #4,403 |
| 2000s | 306 | #2,486 (2009) | #3,413 |
| 2010s | 632 | #1,777 (2019) | #2,178 |
| 2020s | 479 | #1,875 (2023) | #1,922 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Holt in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 20,623 of them was named Holt, which outranked 87.4% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,762Tyrese88
- #1,762Yuri88
- #1,762Zamari88
- #1,777Holt87
- #1,777Abbas87
- #1,777Ivar87
- #1,777Jovanny87
- #1,790Braulio86
- #1,790Charley86
- #1,790Davi86
Tied with 12 names at #1,777; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.