Holm

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Either person who lives by a holly tree or one who lives on an island; from Middle English and Old Norse holm

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/hoʊm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Holm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 75th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 708(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 25K
  • DKDenmark1 in 362

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)

≈33,000 people, est.

Sources
393 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 362 (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Either person who lives by a holly tree or one who lives on an island; from Middle English and Old Norse holm.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Holm 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 Holm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈33,000 est.≈1 in 42K—Holm7
DK Denmark—16,2071 in 36216K—7
SE Sweden#40114,4081 in 70814KHolm95
US United States—13,3411 in 25K13KHolm393
NO Norway#47812,8441 in 42613KHolm68
FI Finland—7,2431 in 7697.2KHolm33
GL Greenland—1331 in 433133—2
AG Antigua & Barbuda#75———Holm2

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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)

Holm is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Hólm, Hölm, Hòlm

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hõlm, Kholm

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, France

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Hólm

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Hólm, Hòlm

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Hólm

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Anundgard, Hólm

  • Thai surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Sweden, United States, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written โฮ่ลิ่ม, โฮล์ม, Holim, ฮอล์ม, โฮลัม

58 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)

Holm is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, From Old Norse holmr ‘island’; likely a locational name from Holm parish, Orkney, and used as a local northern surname.

    as a nameScottish Surnames

  • In English, from residence near a piece of flat land in a fen or land partly surrounded by streams; first attested Roger de Holm 1186 Seals (Lei).

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • topographic name for someone who lived where holly grew, from Middle English holm, a variant of holin ‘holly’, or possibly a habitational name from places called Holme (Dorset and West Yorkshire) or Holne (Devon), named with this word.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • topographic name for someone who lived on an island, in particular a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams. Middle English, Middle Low German holm. Old Norse holmr, or a habitational name from a place named with this element. The Swedish name is often ornamental.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, Small island, islet.

    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)

18001850190019502000Holm Hansen Munthe, b. 1848Holm O. Bursum, b. 1867Holm Vogel, b. 1939Holm Sundhaussen, b. 1942Ib Holm Sørensen, b. 1949Holm Dressler, b. 1949Holm Altenbach, b. 1956Holm Schneider, b. 1969Holm Gero Hümmler, b. 1970Holm Putzke, b. 1973

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)

FormalDear Holm,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Holm
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—16K#29
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—14K#44
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201013K#2,701
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200013K#2,578
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—13K#53
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202013K#2,766
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—7.2K#245
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20206.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20186.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20196.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20216.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20226.5K—

Reference works 8

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 Holm mean, and where does it come from?
Either person who lives by a holly tree or one who lives on an island; from Middle English and Old Norse holm. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Holm?
A machine transcription gives /hoʊm/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Holm?
In the etymology graph, Helm is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Holm have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Holm in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holm.
Where is Holm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Holm is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 362 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Holm?
In Denmark, the national register counted 16,207 people named Holm, about 1 in 362 residents.
How common is Holm compared with other names?
In Antigua & Barbuda, Holm is the 75th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Holm” — the 75th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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