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Holli

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Holli is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

What does Holli mean?

English

A female given name from English.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Holli a girl's or a boy's name?

Holli is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Holli in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 35 girls.

Half of all the girls named Holli in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2008. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 35 in 20022020
Holli in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20202#7,238
20190–
20184#4,914
20173#5,998
20165#4,290
20159#2,855
20141#7,592
20136#3,719
201211#2,463
201113#2,152
201015#1,912
200918#1,621
200824#1,293
200726#1,170
200622#1,272
200523#1,172
200434#866
200332#877
200235#786
200133#800
200033#772
199913#1,493
199827#891
199723#995
199617#1,179

How popular is Holli in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,360th among girls
Babies in 2025
12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 16% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Holli, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 1983, with 283 girls. It first appears in the records in 1946.

Half of all the girls named Holli in the US since 1880 were born between 1972 and 1990, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 829 girls in the US were given Holli or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #399, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.

1946Busiest: 283 in 19832025
Holli in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
202411#8,941
202314#7,635
202214#7,626
202120#5,951
202017#6,625
201912#8,592
201815#7,405
201719#6,283
201615#7,599
201519#6,450
201419#6,449
201333#4,334
201242#3,710
201128#4,913
201033#4,396
200936#4,195
200839#4,005
200747#3,481
200640#3,794
200539#3,726
200455#2,885
200366#2,462
200260#2,579
200176#2,147
200077#2,099
199977#2,015
1998106#1,555
1997105#1,528
1996117#1,410
1995132#1,270
1994158#1,130
1993180#1,021
1992172#1,057
1991168#1,074
1990215#893
1989237#801
1988235#794
1987247#732
1986251#714
1985262#685
1984250#678
1983283#616
1982221#752
1981221#747
1980243#700
1979266#655
1978230#691
1977233#673
1976247#628
1975217#688
1974274#579
1973240#630
1972219#676
1971257#640
1970242#662
1969201#701
1968151#826
1967139#857
1966114#952
1965106#1,013
1964129#920
1963109#1,022
196281#1,224
196187#1,183
196077#1,247
195960#1,382
195843#1,629
195766#1,300
195656#1,397
195538#1,666
195434#1,768
195328#1,930
195220#2,326
195116#2,576
19505#5,299
19490–
19487#4,203
19478#4,005
19465#4,958

Names like Holli

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Holli: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/holli, updated 20 October 2026.