The HOLLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	99,885	276	0.037	370
United States (1880 census)	25,507	199	0.051	510
Change since 1880	+74378	-77	-0.014	-140
Other Countries
Australia	5,840	231	0.036	357
United Kingdom	28,505	175	0.062	621

Top States for HOLLAND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	7,979	297	0.038	383
California	6,586	472	0.019	194
North Carolina	6,440	130	0.080	800
Florida	6,196	276	0.039	388
Georgia	5,058	176	0.062	618
Top States for HOLLAND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	2,146	132	0.080	803
North Carolina	6,440	130	0.080	800
Alabama	3,270	184	0.074	735
Mississippi	2,028	187	0.071	713
Tennessee	3,997	193	0.070	703

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HOLLAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HOLLAND surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HOLLAND surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HOLLAND in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	549	0.55
Asian/Pacific	360	0.36
White (Caucasian)	78,769	78.86
Black/African American	17,210	17.23
Mixed Race	1,538	1.54
White (Hispanic)	1,458	1.46

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

Meaning of HOLLAND in historical publications

(origin: Local) A name given to a native of that country, which was so called from Hollow-land, because it abounds with ditches full of water. Bailey is of opinion that the Danes who conquered Holland, so called it from an island in the Baltic of the same name, from ol, beer, drink. Why not from Hold land, the land taken and kept, held, governed?

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

HOLLAND. It has been stated on the authority of George of Croylaud, who wrote an account of the family in 1550, that the noble and knightly race of this name could trace themselves backwards thirteen generations beyond the Norman Conquest ! For 13 we should probably read 3 ; and there is a more credible genealogy which makes the fundator genfis one Otho, whose son Stephen lloinished under Edw. the Confessor, as lord of Stevingtou, co. Lincoln, and his son, Ralph de Holand, it is said,' continued to hold liis lands by the permission of William the Conquei'or. These lands were in the district of Lincolnshire still known as Holland, but there is also a Holland in Lancashire which belonged to the family. Thej were ennobled by Edward I., and their blood mingled with that of royalty itself by the marriage of Thomas de Holland with the lovely Joane Plantagenet, the Fair Maul of Fent, and granddaughter of King Edward III.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to HOLLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLLAND.

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.