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The HOLLIDAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,488 1686 0.007 72
United States (1880 census) 3,855 1594 0.008 77
Change since 1880 +15633 -92 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 849 1931 0.005 52
United Kingdom 5,513 1137 0.012 120
Top States for HOLLIDAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,325 485 0.033 330
California 1,209 2648 0.004 36
Texas 1,185 2059 0.006 57
Florida 989 2115 0.006 62
North Carolina 914 1380 0.011 114
Top States for HOLLIDAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,325 485 0.033 330
West Virginia 520 530 0.029 288
Mississippi 692 649 0.024 243
Washington DC 92 700 0.016 161
Louisiana 636 1057 0.014 142

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

Classification and Origin of HOLLIDAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HOLLIDAY 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 HOLLIDAY 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 HOLLIDAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 308 1.58
White (Hispanic) 285 1.46
Native American/Alaskan 146 0.75
Asian/Pacific 60 0.31
White (Caucasian) 13,883 71.24
Black/African American 4,806 24.66

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

Meaning of HOLLIDAY in historical publications

HOLLIDAY. See Halliday.

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 HOLLIDAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLLIDAY.

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 HOLLIDAY

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