Holt
#1,924 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Holt has been given to 1,924 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #1,924 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 87 recorded.
Babies named Holt, 2025
1 in 40,900
Holt over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Holt?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 40,900
- 81 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 21,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,924
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 28,370 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Holt sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 28,370 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Holt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Holts were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Holt was born before 2012 — so the typical Holt is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 32.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,755
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (632).
Is Holt 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
- −15
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +60
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +171
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.21×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 93.1%
- Peak was 2019 (87)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 11.6% average annual change
Spellings of Holt
Holt is not the most common spelling — Cole is, with 60.3% against Holt's 0.75%.
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 Holt is used
Across 2016–2025, Holt was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 25,388 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 10,000
- 2Texas1 in 14,286
- 3Tennessee1 in 16,667
- 4Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 5Alabama1 in 50,000
- 6Georgia1 in 50,000
- 7Ohio1 in 50,000
- 8Virginia1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Holt around the world
Where Holt 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.
- Canada2010–2023#2,747in 2023
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Holt by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Holt
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Holt
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.