Hollin
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HOL-in
- Origin
- Old English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Hollin is a girls' name of Old English origin, meaning “holly”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Hollin mean?
Old English: old dialect word, from Old English holegn
“holly”
In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Hollin is the elven land of Eregion, named for its holly trees.
Is Hollin a girl's or a boy's name?
Hollin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls and 5 boys in the US.
How popular is Hollin in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Hollin, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 1991. 5 boys were also named Hollin in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).
2025 had the most girls named Hollin of any year since it first appeared, in 1991.
Half of all the girls named Hollin in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 208 girls in the US were given Hollin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,038, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.
Hollin in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
Names like Hollin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Harlow, Oaklynn, Harper, Lakelynn, Lennon, Haisley, Haven, Sevyn, Leighton, Gracelynn, Isla, Hayden
Other spellings of Hollin
Names related to Hollin
More Old English names
Alfie, Edward, Teddy, Waylon, Alfred, Audrey, Edith, Wilfred, Ozzy, Edie, Eddie, Edwin, Ted, Teddie, Eduardo, Edgar
Sources
Figures from 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, “Hollin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hollin, updated 20 October 2026.