Holes
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/hoʊlz/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Holes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Various origins: * Variant of English Hole. * Borrowed from Slovak Holeš or Czech Holeš.
- SKSlovakia1 in 28K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 34K
- HRCroatia1 in 108K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
327 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Various origins: * Variant of English Hole. * Borrowed from Slovak Holeš or Czech Holeš.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Holes 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 327 | 1 in 1M | 371 | Holes | 144 |
| CZ Czechia | 315 | 1 in 34K | 316 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | 197 | 1 in 28K | 197 | — | — |
| IN India | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 9.8M | 17 | Holes | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 518K | — | Holes | 66 |
| HR Croatia | 39 | 1 in 108K | 39 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Holes | 10 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Holes | 1 |
327 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Holes 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.
In ang, genitive singular of hol
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Andrew HolesHoles, Andrew (d. 1470), ecclesiastical administrator and book collector
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 371 | #52,500 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 329 | #65,168 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 327 | #61,436 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #10,160 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Holes mean, and where does it come from?
- Various origins: * Variant of English Hole. * Borrowed from Slovak Holeš or Czech Holeš. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Holes?
- In English /hoʊlz/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Holes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 327 people named Holes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holes.
- Where is Holes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Holes is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Holes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 327 people named Holes in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/holesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Holes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.