Holling

surname · Latin script

Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, variant of Hollen

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Holling is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 98K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 197K
  • USUnited States1 in 655K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈820 people, est.

Sources
191 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, variant of Hollen.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Holling counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Holling is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈820 est.≈1 in 98K—Holling67
US United States5081 in 655K733Holling191
GB United Kingdom≈330 est.≈1 in 197K—Holling87
CA Canada≈150 est.≈1 in 250K—Holling32
AU Australia≈100 est.≈1 in 248K—Holling42
NL Netherlands811 in 213K81Holling11
IE Ireland≈28 est.≈1 in 182K—Holling1
NZ New Zealand≈20 est.≈1 in 241K—Holling6

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Holling is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hölling

  • Swedish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Hölling

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Hölling

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Hölling

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Hölling

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States

    Also written Hölling

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Holling is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • habitational name from any of several places so named.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18801900192019401960Carl Holling, b. 1896Holling C. Holling, b. 1900Crawford S. Holling, b. 1930Heinz Holling, b. 1950

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Holling
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020733#33,463
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000689#31,704
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010508#42,640
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200781#22,301
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Holling mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, variant of Hollen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Holling have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 820 people named Holling in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holling.
How common is the name Holling?
In the United States, the national register counted 508 people named Holling in 2010, about 1 in 655 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Holling”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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