Name Awesome

Hollye

Girls' name

Spelling variant of Holly

Hollye has been given to 445 babies in the U.S. since 1954. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Hollye, 2007

1 in 500,000

Hollye over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hollye: meaning, origin, and history

Spelling variant of Holly

English

What Hollye means

Hollye is a spelling variant of Holly.

Origin, language, and formation

Hollye is used in English. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Holly.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 445 girls were recorded with the name Hollye between 1954 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1984; its best national rank was #3,112 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hollye?

Hollye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 500,000
8 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
346,380 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hollye sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 346,380 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hollye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hollyes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hollye was born before 1976 — so the typical Hollye is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
445
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (131).

Is Hollye rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (19)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,112
1963

Spellings of Hollye

Hollye is not the most common spelling — Holly is, with 31.6% against Hollye's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hollye is used

Across 1910–2025, Hollye was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 722,407 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hollye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hollye around the world

Where Hollye ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2006
    #4,157
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Hollye by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,112
1963
Peak year
1984
19 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
445
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hollye

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HoldenHolidayHollanHollinHollynHollynnHolleeHollenHollaceHolleyHolyHollisLoralyeHollyndAshlyeMollyeKarlyeWillyeHolleighHollidayDollyeHollyannCarlyeSallye

Sibling names for Hollye

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Hollye

Top names of 1984, Hollye's peak yearThe 1980s in fullOther names that peaked in 1963Girls' names starting with H