Holiday
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Holiday is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ISIceland
- USUnited States
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Holiday 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 enm, alternative form of halyday
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)
- Thomas Holliday Hicksb. 1798USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1798-1865)
- Henry Holidayb. 1839GBBritish artist (1839–1927)
- Billie Holidayb. 1915USAmerican jazz singer (1915–1959)
- Robert Reidb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican businessperson & author (1965-)
- Kid Memphisb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Lauren Cheneyb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
- Holliday Graingerb. 1988GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress
- Justin Holidayb. 1989USAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
- Jrue Holidayb. 1990USAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- Aaron Holidayb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
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 20 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.9K | #5,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.5K | #5,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.5K | #4,968 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #109,800 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 6 | #20,026 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #338,406 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #163,778 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Holiday mean, and where does it come from?
- A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Holiday have the most bearers?
- Holiday is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Holiday?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/holidayThe 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, “Holiday”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.