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Holly

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name

English holly = 'holly' (Lat. Ilex), evergreen shrub or tree (Middle English holi(n), Old English holegn)

In English-speaking countries it is bestowed especially on girls born around Christmas, when sprigs of holly are traditionally taken indoors to decorate rooms [1] [2]

Holly leaves
Holly leaves
Image by Frank Vincentz,[3]
License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA

Related Names

Holley ♀ Swedish
Hollie ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Holly ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Holly
Genitive: Hollys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Holly
Genitive: Hollyn
Partitive: Hollya
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Holly
Genitive: Hollys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Holly
Genitive: Hollys

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
776 904 776 899 0 5
Denmark Denmark[5]
218
n.a.
 218
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 67
n.a.
 67 0 0
Iceland Iceland[7]
4 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
53
n.a.
 53
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Holly (f) Sources: [4][5][8][6]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Frank Vincentz, source & license
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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