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The HOLT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 84,710 329 0.031 314
United States (1880 census) 19,425 273 0.039 388
Change since 1880 +65285 -56 -0.008 -74
Other Countries
Australia 3,694 399 0.023 226
United Kingdom 19,619 285 0.043 427
Top States for HOLT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 7,115 340 0.034 341
Tennessee 6,974 83 0.123 1,226
California 5,851 531 0.017 173
North Carolina 4,527 218 0.056 562
Florida 4,412 413 0.028 276
Top States for HOLT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 6,974 83 0.123 1,226
Alabama 3,367 176 0.076 757
Arkansas 1,996 149 0.075 747
Oklahoma 2,255 175 0.065 653
Utah 1,426 138 0.064 639

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

Classification and Origin of HOLT

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 HOLT 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 HOLT 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 HOLT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 661 0.78
Asian/Pacific 440 0.52
White (Caucasian) 68,776 81.19
Black/African American 12,232 14.44
Mixed Race 1,432 1.69
White (Hispanic) 1,169 1.38

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

Meaning of HOLT in historical publications

(origin: Local) A small hanging wood, from Hultz, Dutch, a wood; a peaked hill covered with wood; a grove of trees around a house.

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


HOLT. Halliwell says a grove, or small forest. On the South Downs generally, if not always, it is a small hanging wood. See other definitions in Eng. Surn. i. 75.' Leo says copse or wood, corresponding with the Germ. holz. The H.R. forms are De, Dela, Del, and Le Holt. There are towns and places specifically named Holt in Norfolk, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Leicestershire.

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 HOLT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLT.

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 HOLT

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