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How popular is “Holly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Holly” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Holly” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Holly” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Holly” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Holly” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Holly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Holly” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 -100%
1896 11 0.000030771 5 6 -9%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 100%
1908 17 0.00003479 10 7 18%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1910 7 0.00001185 7 100%
1911 15 0.000023282 9 6 20%
1912 20 0.000020242 9 11 -10%
1913 27 0.000023744 11 16 -19%
1914 33 0.000023299 15 18 -9%
1915 34 0.000018555 18 16 6%
1916 34 0.000017576 18 16 6%
1917 41 0.000020431 20 21 -2%
1918 46 0.000021187 14 32 -39%
1919 29 0.000013742 12 17 -17%
1920 42 0.000018562 18 24 -14%
1921 38 0.000016278 15 23 -21%
1922 40 0.000017474 22 18 10%
1923 42 0.000018241 17 25 -19%
1924 46 0.000019315 18 28 -22%
1925 42 0.000018 18 24 -14%
1926 37 0.000016116 20 17 8%
1927 46 0.000019833 25 21 9%
1928 38 0.000016807 24 14 26%
1929 42 0.000019159 22 20 5%
1930 47 0.00002114 25 22 6%
1931 38 0.000018058 28 10 47%
1932 52 0.000024629 32 20 23%
1933 42 0.000021006 25 17 19%
1934 44 0.000021186 28 16 27%
1935 54 0.000025839 44 10 63%
1936 61 0.000029361 49 12 61%
1937 62 0.000029099 48 14 55%
1938 78 0.000035253 66 12 69%
1939 88 0.000039938 70 18 59%
1940 89 0.000038651 74 15 66%
1941 151 0.000061976 134 17 77%
1942 243 0.000088952 230 13 89%
1943 336 0.000119041 318 18 89%
1944 317 0.00011784 305 12 92%
1945 395 0.000148893 382 13 93%
1946 528 0.000165242 507 21 92%
1947 730 0.000202647 708 22 94%
1948 692 0.000200433 673 19 95%
1949 643 0.000184517 631 12 96%
1950 852 0.000243195 834 18 96%
1951 1087 0.000295081 1069 18 97%
1952 1335 0.0003515 1318 17 97%
1953 1581 0.000410261 1566 15 98%
1954 2106 0.000529052 2092 14 99%
1955 2519 0.000627385 2504 15 99%
1956 2350 0.000569968 2325 25 98%
1957 2412 0.000573993 2394 18 99%
1958 2261 0.000546941 2242 19 98%
1959 2309 0.000555316 2290 19 98%
1960 2594 0.000624486 2578 16 99%
1961 2587 0.000624532 2576 11 99%
1962 2934 0.00072707 2923 11 99%
1963 3149 0.000795564 3135 14 99%
1964 3497 0.000899526 3479 18 99%
1965 3373 0.000930368 3358 15 99%
1966 3414 0.000982261 3399 15 99%
1967 3174 0.000934933 3152 22 99%
1968 3439 0.001017934 3421 18 99%
1969 4136 0.001190105 4123 13 99%
1970 4953 0.001373348 4940 13 99%
1971 4765 0.00138826 4746 19 99%
1972 4396 0.001398666 4376 20 99%
1973 5139 0.001703411 5114 25 99%
1974 5166 0.001699343 5144 22 99%
1975 5057 0.001674839 5047 10 100%
1976 5194 0.001711762 5173 21 99%
1977 5483 0.001726117 5464 19 99%
1978 4995 0.001573788 4972 23 99%
1979 5508 0.001655546 5488 20 99%
1980 5306 0.001540424 5282 24 99%
1981 4593 0.001327696 4564 29 99%
1982 4699 0.001339524 4682 17 99%
1983 6415 0.001852259 6388 27 99%
1984 5947 0.001704619 5930 17 99%
1985 5627 0.001576583 5602 25 99%
1986 4868 0.001368539 4839 29 99%
1987 4276 0.001185928 4259 17 99%
1988 4235 0.00114613 4217 18 99%
1989 3912 0.001017572 3893 19 99%
1990 3777 0.000955603 3772 5 100%
1991 3296 0.000846156 3289 7 100%
1992 3355 0.000873408 3347 8 100%
1993 3037 0.000805511 3032 5 100%
1994 2932 0.00078867 2924 8 99%
1995 2544 0.000694673 2544 100%
1996 2438 0.000668459 2438 100%
1997 2061 0.000568434 2056 5 100%
1998 1926 0.000523625 1921 5 99%
1999 1749 0.000473488 1749 100%
2000 1690 0.000447101 1690 100%
2001 1462 0.000390555 1462 100%
2002 1363 0.000364605 1363 100%
2003 1227 0.000322698 1227 100%
2004 1127 0.000294955 1119 8 99%
2005 1040 0.000270492 1040 100%
2006 955 0.000241394 955 100%
2007 976 0.000244141 976 100%
2008 907 0.00023075 907 100%
2009 858 0.000224597 858 100%
2010 774 0.00020943 774 100%
2011 738 0.000201761 738 100%
2012 740 0.000202331 740 100%
2013 683 0.000187346 683 100%
2014 714 0.000192641 714 100%
2015 653 0.000176443 653 100%
2016 589 0.000160547 589 100%
2017 634 0.000177283 634 100%
2018 608 0.000172929 608 100%
2019 651 0.000187558 651 100%
2020 638 0.000190985 638 100%
2021 672 0.00019835 672 100%
2022 692 0.000204544 692 100%
2023 682 0.000205968 682 100%
2024 739 0.000222022 739 100%

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