Hollis
Meaning not yet sourced
Editor’s note Used for both: 56% of US babies named Hollis in 2025 were boys
Boy’s name
What Hollis means
Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Hollis yet, and we don’t write our own.
Editor’s note Used for both: 56% of US babies named Hollis in 2025 were boys Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.
How popular is Hollis?
▲ 162 vs 2024
US: Rising: up from #1100 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.
Biggest US share so far: 1908, when 56 boys got the name (#290 that year). First in the US records in 1880.
How common
- About 1 in 6,421 baby boys in the US in 2025
- About 1 in 90,645 baby boys in England and Wales 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 MS (0.55 per 1,000 boys), OR (0.53 per 1,000 boys), LA (0.52 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.
SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.
US vs UK
Hollis is #893 in the US and #5137 in England & Wales (2025).
| Rank 2025 | Babies | How common | Rank 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | #893 | 266 | 1 in 6,421 | #1100 |
| England & Wales | #5137 | 3 | 1 in 90,645 | – |
| Scotland | – | – | – | – |
Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).
Boy or girl?
In 2025, 56.4% of US babies named Hollis were boys.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| US 2025 | 206 | 266 |
| England & Wales 2025 | 0 | 3 |
| US all years since 1880 | 5,498 | 16,014 |
| England & Wales since 1996 | 3 | 24 |
Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.
If you like Hollis
Boys
- Weston#55Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #120 in 2015, #55 in 2025
- Graham#120“gravel + homestead”*
- Barrett#171Editor’s note 2,138 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
- Brooks#64Variant of Brook, meaning “swamp, marsh”*
- Dean#125“valley”*
- Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”*
For a sister
- Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”*
- June#150From the word “name”*
- Sloane#141Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #327 in 2015, #141 in 2025
- Mabel#201“lovable”*
- Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”*
- Rosalie#171“rose”*
Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Hollis’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.
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