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Hollyn

Gender
Girl
Say it
HOL-in
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#1,309 for girls

Hollyn is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,309th for girls in the US (170 babies).

Where does Hollyn come from?

Modern: blend of Holly with -lyn

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

Hollyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 170 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Hollyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,309among girls
Babies in 2025
170about 1 in 9,500 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 25% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 170 girls in the US were named Hollyn, making it the 1,309th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,448th. It first appears in the records in 1977.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had the most girls named Hollyn of any year since it first appeared, in 1977.

Half of all the girls named Hollyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 208 girls in the US were given Hollyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,038, up from #1,309 for this spelling alone.

1977Busiest: 170 in 20252025
Hollyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025170#1,309
2024169#1,350
2023161#1,391
2022147#1,486
2021136#1,544
2020149#1,448
2019130#1,629
2018120#1,717
201787#2,184
201656#2,966
201538#3,914
201456#3,003
201366#2,660
201264#2,734
201146#3,451
201047#3,408
200930#4,804
200827#5,277
200739#3,982
200635#4,164
200533#4,191
200440#3,627
200317#6,571
200210#9,476
200115#6,951
200014#7,152
199912#7,710
199820#5,119
199722#4,656
199613#6,718
199519#5,014
199415#5,978
199313#6,615
199210#8,057
19915#13,139
199010#7,874
19897#9,675
19880–
19877#8,773
19869#7,130
19857#8,315
19840–
19839#6,703
19820–
19810–
19805#10,390
19790–
19780–
19775#9,650

Names like Hollyn

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

Other spellings of Hollyn

Names related to Hollyn

More Modern names

Every Modern name

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, “Hollyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hollyn, updated 20 October 2026.