Holdyn
Boy · HOHL-din · English
Holdyn is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “hollow valley”. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).
What does Holdyn mean?
English: spelling of Holden, an English place-name surname
“hollow valley”
A spelling of Holden, recalling Holden Caulfield of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
- Say it
- HOHL-din
Is Holdyn a girl's or a boy's name?
Holdyn is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Holdyn in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,397among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 17 boys in the US were named Holdyn, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,342nd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 43 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had fewer boys named Holdyn than any year since 2006.
Half of all the boys named Holdyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,157 boys in the US were given Holdyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #302, up from #5,397 for this spelling alone.
- Holden 1,140
- Holdyn 17
In 2022, 17% of the babies named Holdyn in the US were girls.
Holdyn in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,397 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,063 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,894 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,772 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,179 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,342 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,050 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,168 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,839 |
| 2016 | 39 | #2,992 |
| 2015 | 33 | #3,364 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,454 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,062 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,057 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,219 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,376 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,719 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,558 |
| 2007 | 18 | #4,994 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,299 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,626 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,002 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,529 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,104 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,867 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,693 |
Names like Holdyn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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