How common is the surname Holyfield?

1,790 people in the United States had the surname Holyfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,484 Americans. It ranked 16,157th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Holyfield?

Evander Holyfield, American boxer.

Where is the surname Holyfield most common?

Wikidata records people named Holyfield in the United States.

Is the surname Holyfield getting more or less common?

More common. 1,710 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,790 in 2010, up 4.7%.

The surname Holyfield

An English place surname, carried by 1,790 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H414

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holyfield is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English hāliġ (“holy, sacred”) + feld (“field”); equivalent to holy + field.

Holyfield is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,790 people named Holyfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,484 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,710.

#16,157

rank among US surnames

1,790

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.7%

change since 2000 (was #15,691)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,150	Zeitler	1,791	172,387
#16,157	Besser	1,790	172,484
#16,161	Amend	1,789	172,580
#16,166	Hayek	1,788	172,676

Who is named Holyfield

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

59% of people named Holyfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 35% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 59%
Black (not Hispanic) 35%
Two or more races 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Holyfields

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Evander Holyfield
American boxer, born 1962

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Hollifield
Hollyfield

Surnames that sound like Holyfield

Holyfield has the Soundex code H414, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H414.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Holyfield come from?: From Old English hāliġ (“holy, sacred”) + feld (“field”); equivalent to holy + field.
How common is the surname Holyfield?: 1,790 people in the United States had the surname Holyfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,484 Americans. It ranked 16,157th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Holyfield?: In the 2010 Census, 59% of people named Holyfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 35% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Holyfield?: Evander Holyfield, American boxer.
Where is the surname Holyfield most common?: Wikidata records people named Holyfield in the United States.
What type of surname is Holyfield?: Holyfield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Holyfield getting more or less common?: More common. 1,710 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,790 in 2010, up 4.7%.
What are other spellings of Holyfield?: Hollifield and Hollyfield.