Holden vs Holt
American parents have registered 32,795 Holdens since 1880, against 1,924 Holts. Holden is still ahead, with 1,146 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Holden Holt
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 105 years in which either name was published, Holden for 82 years and Holt for 23 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.
- 1906–1920 Holt ahead
- 1921–1942 Holden ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1943–1947 Holt ahead
- 1955–2025 Holden ahead, apart from 2 short spells
15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Holden | Holt | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 32,795 | 1,924 |
| Most in one year | 1,757 | 87 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,146 | 81 |
| Estimated living today | 32,000 | 1,700 |
| Median age today | 11 | 11 |
| Peak year | 2018 | 2019 |
| Best rank | 217th boys | 1,777th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 297th | 1,919th |
| First recorded | 1902 | 1906 |
| Girls / boys | 288 / 32,507 | 0 / 1,924 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Where each one is strongest
- Holden Utah (2.6×), North Carolina (2.1×), Idaho (1.8×)
- Holt Texas (8.6×), North Carolina (4.6×), Tennessee (2.1×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Holden and Holt.