Hollie

What Hollie means

Variant of Holly, meaning “wood, clearing, meadow”

variant of Holly || Also as a locational English surname, from Old English hol leah (“wood, clearing, meadow”), compare Hollywood.

Source: Wiktionary, “Hollie” (revision 82027037) and “Holly” (revision 94540097), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Hollie?

US: Falling: down from #2209 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #94 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1977, when 620 girls got the name (#356 that year). First in the US records in 1886.

How common

• About 1 in 26,788 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,611 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 716 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in TX (0.07 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Hollie is #2822 in the US and #419 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Hollie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Hallie2,260 US · 1,246 E&W
• Hailie125 US · 24 E&W
• Haylie37 US · 3 E&W
• Halie6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Hollie

Girls

• Kelsey#814Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #343 in 2015, #814 in 2025
• Tiffany#878Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1988, with 18,364 babies; 304 in 2025
• Amber#520“ambergris”^*
• April#542“the month of the goddess Venus”^*
• Kelly#851Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1977, with 18,234 babies; 319 in 2025
• Ashley#164“ash tree + wood, clearing”^*

For a brother

• Taylor#683From the word “tailor”^*
• Travis#434“to cross over”^*
• Douglas#807“black + stream”^*
• Corey#778possibly “troop, host, company”^*
• Scott#534Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1971, with 30,901 babies; 561 in 2025
• Keith#800“wood”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Hollie’s. Rank is US 2025.