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
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/hoʊm/(machine-generated) English · model-generated
Holm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 75th most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 362(measured from records)
- GLGreenland1 in 433
- SESweden1 in 708
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- 1 in 362 (inferred from the name graph)
16,207 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | — | 16,207 | 1 in 362 | 16K | — | 7 |
| SE Sweden | #401 | 14,408 | 1 in 708 | 14K | Holm | 95 |
| US United States | — | 13,341 | 1 in 25K | 13K | Holm | 393 |
| NO Norway | #478 | 12,844 | 1 in 426 | 13K | Holm | 68 |
| FI Finland | — | 7,243 | 1 in 769 | 7.2K | Holm | 33 |
| GL Greenland | — | 133 | 1 in 433 | 133 | — | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #75 | — | — | — | Holm | 2 |
16,207 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 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)- Holm Hansen Muntheb. 1848NONorwegian architect (1848–1898)
- Holm O. Bursumb. 1867USUnited States Senator from New Mexico (1867-1953)
- Holm Vogelb. 1939DEGerman church musician and organist
- Holm Sundhaussenb. 1942DEGerman historian (1942–2015)
- Ib Holm Sørensenb. 1949DKDanish computer scientist
- Holm Dresslerb. 1949DEGerman author
- Holm Altenbachb. 1956DEresearcher and professor
- Holm Schneiderb. 1969DEGerman geneticist
- Holm Gero Hümmlerb. 1970DEGerman author
- Holm Putzkeb. 1973DEGerman academic
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Reference works 8
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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].
- What are other forms of the name Holm?
- In the etymology graph, Helm is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Holm?
- In English /hoʊm/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Holm have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Holm, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Holm most common?
- Holm is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 362 people carrying 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.
What do you want to know about Holm?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/holmThe 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, “Holm” — the 75th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.