Hollyn

#1,313 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Hollyn has been given to 2,090 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,313 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 170 recorded.

Babies named Hollyn, 2025

1 in 19,500

Hollyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Hollyn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,500
170 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,450
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,313
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,518 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hollyn 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 2025 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hollyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hollyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hollyn was born before 2019 — so the typical Hollyn is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,090
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (932).

Is Hollyn 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
+38
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+140
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,627
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.47×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (170)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,313
2025

Spellings of Hollyn

Hollyn is not the most common spelling — Holly is, with 37.8% against Hollyn's 0.39%.

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 Hollyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Hollyn was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 11,790 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

133 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 3,030
  2. 2Alabama1 in 3,226
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 3,226
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 3,226
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 3,571
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 5,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 5,556
  8. 8Missouri1 in 5,556

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.

Hollyn around the world

Where Hollyn 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.

  • Canada
    2019–2022
    #2,138
    in 2022

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hollyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,313
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 140
Best rank ever
#1,313
2025
Peak year
2025
170 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,090
Count in 2025
170

Names similar to Hollyn

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

Names with a curve like Hollyn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hollyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Sibling names for Hollyn

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

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