Hollee
Feminine · “holly”
Hollee respells the name of a tree. That tree has a feature most people who decorate with it have never noticed: half of them will never produce a single berry, and no amount of care will change it.
How old is the name Hollee?
Hollee first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Hollee alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 700 people named Hollee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Hollee most popular?
Hollee peaked in 1984, reaching #3527 nationally. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Hollee
Holly is dioecious: individual plants are male or female, and only the female ones fruit, and only if a male is near enough for the bees to travel. Gardeners who buy a holly for its berries and get none have usually bought a male, and the nursery trade compounds the confusion by selling cultivars with names that contradict their sex. The leaves are another small surprise: the spines are a response to browsing, so the lower branches of a big holly are viciously prickly and the upper ones, out of a deer's reach, are smooth-edged. The tree is making a calculation about height.
Meaning
holly, the tree
The word is the Old English name of the tree and the reading is settled. Only the ending here is modern.
Pronouncing Hollee
HOL-ee
Two syllables with the stress in front. The doubled e says the same thing a y would.
Nicknames for Hollee
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1955
- Most girls named
- 198927 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3527reached in 1984
- Change vs 2021
- −50.0%6 in 2023, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Hollees among us
people named Hollee are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Hollee sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The word is in everybody's vocabulary, so the name is never a puzzle.
- It is short, quick to write and easy for a child to learn to spell.
- The meaning is settled and easy to point at in a hedge.
- Holly is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected to it constantly.
- The ending cannot be heard, so the spelling has to be given aloud every time.
- The plant is strongly associated with one season, which comes up every December.
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Frequently asked
- How many Hollees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Hollee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Hollee in 2025?
- Hollee is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Hollee with classmates?
- Hollee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More H names
The most-given names starting with H, all years combined.
Helen#461 · Heather#1261 · Hannah#56 · Hazel#21 · Holly#416 · Hailey#104 · Haley#861 · Heidi#340
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