Holland
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Meaning
from the place name Holland or the related surname
Say it: HOL-und
The story
A windmill can be someone's address. At Kinderdijk in South Holland, miller families still live in many of the mills, among waterways shaped by the work of keeping land dry. The people operating the mills must stay with them while they pump water. That makes a familiar landscape feel lived in: there is a home and a job inside the outline. Holland reached given-name use through the Dutch place name or a related surname. Within that Dutch place-name route is a less obvious landscape, from old words for forest and land. North Holland and South Holland are provinces of the Netherlands, so the name points to somewhere more specific than the whole country. Its associations can stretch from the forest preserved in its word history to the working mills and family homes of a particular place.
How popular is Holland around the world?
In the United States, 3,599 babies were named Holland between 2020 and 2025.
Holland is on the official records of the United States, Canada and England and Wales.
United States
1 in 6,100
In the United States, 3,599 babies were named Holland between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Holland peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Canada
1 in 8,900
In Canada, 29 girls named Holland were born in 2024, the 934th most common name among girls that year.
In Canada, 12 boys named Holland were born in 2024, ranked 1,698th among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 59,000
In England and Wales, 7 girls named Holland were born in 2025, ranked 3,333rd among girls that year.
In England and Wales, 3 boys named Holland were born in 2025, ranked 5,137th among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
South Australia
last on record 2016
Holland is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Holland
Most people given the name Holland in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
Keep exploring
The Holland deep dive
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