Holland - Meaning of Holland

What does Holland mean?

[ 2 syll. hol-lan(d), ho-lla-nd ] The baby girl name Holland is also used as a boy name, though it is slightly more popular for girls. It is pronounced HHAOL-ahND †. Holland's origin and use are both in the English language. The name Holland means 'from Holland, Netherlands'. It represents the transferred use of the geographic name as a given name.

Forms of Holland include the names Holand and Hollan.

See also the related categories, english and geographic.

Holland is somewhat popular as a baby girl name, and it is also perceived as rather trendy. The name has been rising in popularity since the 2010s; prior to that, it was of only sporadic use. At the modest peak of its usage in 2018, 0.017% of baby girls were named Holland. It had a ranking of #838 then. Out of all girl names in its family, Holland was the most widely used in 2018. Although Holland is somewhat used more commonly as a baby girl name today, there was a period from 1911 to 1912 that it was more popular with boys. After 2014, increasingly the name became more popular with baby girls than with boys.

† Pronunciation for Holland: HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; D as in "day (D.EY)"



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