# Holger (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/holger/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 244 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 244 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 9 | 2,846 |
| 1930 | 9 | 2,874 |
| 1931 | 6 | 3,567 |
| 1932 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 1933 | 7 | 3,132 |
| 1952 | 6 | 3,528 |
| 1957 | 5 | 4,232 |
| 1963 | 6 | 3,806 |
| 1965 | 6 | 3,693 |
| 1966 | 5 | 4,191 |
| 1967 | 5 | 4,210 |
| 1969 | 5 | 4,657 |
| 1971 | 6 | 4,621 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,401 |
| 2002 | 5 | 11,331 |

## People named Holger

- Holger Badstuber, German association football player (born 1989)
- Holger Rune, Danish tennis player (born 2003)
- Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (1867-1953)
- Holger Osieck, German association football player and manager
- Holger Nielsen, Danish sportsman (1866–1955)
- Holger Hieronymus, German footballer
- Holger Bech Nielsen, Danish theoretical physicist and professor emeritus
- Holger Czukay, German bass-guitarist and co-founder of "Can" (1938-2017)
- Holger Thiele, Danish American astronomer (1878–1946)
- Holger Löwenadler, actor (1904–1977)
- Holger Fach, German football player and manager
- Holger-Madsen, Danish film director and actor (1878-1943)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.