Meaning
We don’t have a verified meaning for Holger.
We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.
Its story
Popularity since 1898
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See the 33 recorded years as a table
| Year | Per million |
|---|---|
| 1898 | 41 |
| 1912 | 30 |
| 1913 | 21 |
| 1914 | 9 |
| 1915 | 11 |
| 1916 | 18 |
| 1917 | 14 |
| 1918 | 9 |
| 1919 | 6 |
| 1920 | 7 |
| 1921 | 8 |
| 1922 | 7 |
| 1923 | 7 |
| 1924 | 6 |
| 1925 | 4 |
| 1926 | 6 |
| 1927 | 4 |
| 1928 | 6 |
| 1929 | 8 |
| 1930 | 8 |
| 1931 | 6 |
| 1932 | 8 |
| 1933 | 7 |
| 1952 | 3 |
| 1957 | 2 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1965 | 3 |
| 1966 | 3 |
| 1967 | 3 |
| 1969 | 3 |
| 1971 | 3 |
| 1987 | 3 |
| 2002 | 3 |
Where it’s loved
Most popular in these states
Holger isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.
More like it
More like Holger
Holger doesn’t share a sound pattern with any other boys name in this corpus — about 1 name in 100 doesn’t. There’s nothing to compare it to yet.
The numbers
Every figure
- Births in 2002
- 5
- Rank in 2002
- #10,667
- How rare
- 1 in 388,302 boys
- Since 1898
- 244
Holger was last recorded in 2002. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.
Most popular in 1898, at 41 per million boys born.
There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Holger doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.
Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.