Holden
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #297 for boys in 2025, 1,140 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 1,732 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 32,507since 1902
Holden over time
Rank among boys' names. Holden has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #297 | 1,140 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #281 | 1,209 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #286 | 1,176 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #285 | 1,219 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #236 | 1,507 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #227 | 1,648 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #250 | 1,468 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | #217 | 1,732 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #242 | 1,531 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #270 | 1,356 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #291 | 1,254 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #291 | 1,218 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #289 | 1,206 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #296 | 1,177 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #299 | 1,114 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #316 | 1,011 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #334 | 955 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #357 | 877 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #378 | 812 |
| 2006 | — | #385 | 777 | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #356 | 830 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #371 | 747 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #415 | 619 |
| 2002 | — | #413 | 614 | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #442 | 547 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #451 | 527 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #430 | 542 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #418 | 562 |
| 1997 | — | #477 | 451 | |
| 1996 | — | #565 | 323 | |
| 1995 | — | #596 | 299 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #602 | 298 |
| 1993 | — | #630 | 267 | |
| 1992 | — | #692 | 224 | |
| 1991 | — | #662 | 234 | |
| 1990 | — | #755 | 182 | |
| 1989 | — | #819 | 146 | |
| 1988 | — | #794 | 143 | |
| 1987 | — | #908 | 107 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,269 | 58 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,942 | 16 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,706 | 17 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,858 | 9 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,216 | 7 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,614 | 11 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,630 | 11 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,632 | 11 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,765 | 10 | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
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| 1902 | — | #1,137 | 5 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Holden! It came in at #1,137, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1902–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Holden
- 16 spots since 2024 (#281 → #297)
- 70 spots since 2020 (#227 → #297)
- 6 spots since 2015 (#291 → #297)
- Biggest jump: 361 spots in 1987 (#1,269 → #908)
- Biggest drop: 49 spots in 2022 (#236 → #285)
- Debuted 1902
- Peaked 2018 at #217 (1,732 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1987–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,047 boys born in 2020 were named Holden (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,498 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- Its best rank, #217 in 2018, was only 1 in 1,049 (0.10%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.2% of all boys named Holden (13,067) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,137 (1902) | #1,137 |
| 1910s | 28 | #2,651 (1914) | #3,405 |
| 1920s | 68 | #2,614 (1923) | #3,196 |
| 1930s | 34 | #2,864 (1931) | #3,412 |
| 1940s | 32 | #3,130 (1940) | #3,468 |
| 1950s | 47 | #2,818 (1958) | #3,301 |
| 1960s | 70 | #2,780 (1965) | #3,178 |
| 1970s | 44 | #3,215 (1978) | #4,547 |
| 1980s | 526 | #794 (1988) | #2,560 |
| 1990s | 3,382 | #418 (1998) | #583 |
| 2000s | 7,305 | #334 (2009) | #390 |
| 2010s | 13,067 | #217 (2018) | #276 |
| 2020s | 7,899 | #227 (2020) | #269 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Holden in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 95,305 of them was named Holden, which outranked 62.5% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,394Zeyna18
- #6,394Zurii18
- #6,394Zyriah18
- #6,642Holden17
- #6,642Aariya17
- #6,642Abrianna17
- #6,642Adelie17
- #6,932Aadhira16
- #6,932Aalia16
- #6,932Abbygail16
Tied with 289 names at #6,642; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 1,425 of them was named Holden, which outranked 98.0% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.