Holliday
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɑɫɪˌdeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Holliday is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: English surname from the noun holiday. Compare Christmas, and by extension the French surname Noël, Noel.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
- USUnited States1 in 16K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 433 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
English surname from the noun holiday. Compare Christmas, and by extension the French surname Noël, Noel.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Holliday 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Holliday | 6 |
| US United States | 20,491 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Holliday | 433 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Holliday | 200 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Holliday | 113 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Holliday | 153 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Holliday | 47 |
| IS Iceland | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Holliday | 2 |
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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cyrus K. Hollidayb. 1826USAmerican politician
- Frederick W. M. Hollidayb. 1828USAmerican politician (1828-1899)
- Doc Hollidayb. 1851USgambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West (1851–1887)
- Robin Hollidayb. 1932GBBritish molecular biologist known for proposing Holliday junctions (1932–2014)
- Polly Hollidayb. 1937USAmerican actress
- Jim Hollidayb. 1948USAmerican pornographic film director and historian
- Charles O. Hollidayb. 1948USAmerican businessperson and board member, former Chairman and CEO of DuPont
- Kene Hollidayb. 1949USAmerican actor
- Jennifer Hollidayb. 1960USAmerican actress and singer
- Matt Hollidayb. 1980USAmerican professional baseball player, outfielder
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,748 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,760 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 19K | #1,686 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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 given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Holliday mean, and where does it come from?
- English surname from the noun holiday. Compare Christmas, and by extension the French surname Noël, Noel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- How common is the name Holliday?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,491 people named Holliday in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Holliday?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑɫɪˌdeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Holliday have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Holliday in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holliday.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hollidayThe 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, “Holliday”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.