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    The surname Hollier

    A surname, carried by 1,941 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex H460

    Hollier: #15,178 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hollier #15,178, 1,941 people Hollier: #15,178 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hollier #15,178, 1,941 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hollier is more common than 90.6% of them.

    Origin

    From Old French holier (“adulterer, lecher”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,941 people named Hollier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 159,065 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,858.

    #15,178
    rank among US surnames
    1,941
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #14,671)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,171Ferman1,942158,983
    #15,178Llanas1,941159,065
    #15,183Stiver1,940159,147

    Who is named Hollier

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    83% of people named Hollier identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hollier

    Hollier has the Soundex code H460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H460.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hollier come from?
    From Old French holier (“adulterer, lecher”).
    How common is the surname Hollier?
    1,941 people in the United States had the surname Hollier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 159,065 Americans. It ranked 15,178th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hollier?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Hollier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hollier getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,858 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,941 in 2010, up 4.5%.