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The HOLY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 776 28856 0 3
United States (1880 census) 152 23458 0 3
Change since 1880 +624 -5398 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 21 49952 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOLY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 107 10609 0.001 5
New York 81 15322 0.000 4
Ohio 55 15431 0.000 5
Illinois 44 19635 0.000 4
Michigan 38 21565 0.000 4
Top States for HOLY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 18 4791 0.002 24
North Dakota 11 6556 0.002 17
Kansas 21 9875 0.001 8
Nebraska 13 13275 0.001 8
Minnesota 28 18116 0.001 6

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HOLY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HOLY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HOLY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HOLY by picking someone at random in South Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HOLY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the HOLY surname.

Ethnic distribution of HOLY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 704 90.72
Black/African American 19 2.45
White (Hispanic) 18 2.32
Mixed Race 14 1.8
Asian/Pacific 12 1.55
Native American/Alaskan 9 1.16

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HOLY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

HOLY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of HOLY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HOLY.

Similar names to HOLY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HOLY

The following words are slight variants of HOLY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.