Meaning and history
Holly is a name taken from the English word for the holly tree, which ultimately comes from Old English holen. It is also the name of Holly Golightly, the main character in Truman Capote’s 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
20062006: 955 births, rank #346
2007: 976 births, rank #339
2008: 907 births, rank #364
2009: 858 births, rank #380
2010: 775 births, rank #409
20112011: 738 births, rank #420
2012: 740 births, rank #425
2013: 683 births, rank #450
2014: 714 births, rank #448
2015: 653 births, rank #491
20162016: 589 births, rank #527
2017: 634 births, rank #493
2018: 608 births, rank #512
2019: 651 births, rank #483
2020: 639 births, rank #479
20212021: 673 births, rank #465
2022: 693 births, rank #457
2023: 682 births, rank #453
2024: 745 births, rank #420
20252025: 751 births, rank #416
Holly rose from #420 to #416 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1983, with 6,388 births.