Holton
- #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 51 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,060since 1914
Holton over time
Rank among boys' names. Holton has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,036 | 40 |
| 2024 | #3,045 | 40 |
| 2023 | #2,737 | 47 |
| 2022 | #3,617 | 31 |
| 2021 | #2,552 | 51 |
| 2020 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #3,143 | 37 |
| 2018 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | #2,798 | 43 |
| 2016 | #3,230 | 35 |
| 2015 | #2,766 | 43 |
| 2014 | #3,532 | 30 |
| 2013 | #3,189 | 34 |
| 2012 | #3,530 | 30 |
| 2011 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #3,128 | 36 |
| 2009 | #3,639 | 29 |
| 2008 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #4,811 | 10 |
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| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
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| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
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| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
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| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
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| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
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| 1941 | #3,505 | 5 |
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| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
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| 1936 | #2,854 | 7 |
| 1935 | #3,645 | 5 |
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| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
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| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | #3,741 | 6 |
| 1924 | #2,822 | 10 |
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| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
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| 1919 | #3,736 | 6 |
| 1918 | #3,368 | 7 |
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| 1915 | #3,392 | 6 |
| 1914 | #2,651 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Holton! It came in at #2,651, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1917, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Holton is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,574 · 1 in 35,010
Best ever in a state: #914 in Ohio, 2020.
Show every state
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| Texas | #2,574 | 5 | 1 in 35,010 |
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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 Holton
- 9 spots since 2024 (#3,045 → #3,036)
- 347 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #3,036)
- 270 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #3,036)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2021 at #2,552 (51 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 34,304 boys born in 2021 were named Holton (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 42,702 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.3% of all boys named Holton (364) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 26 | #2,651 (1914) | #3,287 |
| 1920s | 33 | #2,822 (1924) | #3,620 |
| 1930s | 17 | #2,854 (1936) | #3,344 |
| 1940s | 22 | #3,173 (1946) | #3,335 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,552 (1957) | #3,633 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 15 | #4,811 (1989) | #5,766 |
| 1990s | 114 | #4,020 (1993) | #5,357 |
| 2000s | 203 | #3,368 (2004) | #4,413 |
| 2010s | 364 | #2,766 (2015) | #3,142 |
| 2020s | 255 | #2,552 (2021) | #2,946 |
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.
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