Entry № 4340 · English origin

Hollis Hollis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HOL-is /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Holly grove (modern unisex American name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "holly grove (modern unisex american name)".

Hollis is from the Old English holegn (holly grove) — a place-name and surname now used as a unisex given name. Hollis Mason — Nite Owl, one of the original Minutemen superheroes in Alan Moore's Watchmen (1986-1987); his memoir Under the Hood is one of the most-quoted passages in the graphic novel; the 2009 Zack Snyder film and 2019 HBO series both feature his character.

Holly grove (modern unisex American name) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Hollis
Transliteration
Hollis
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɒl.ɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hollis stands.

Hollis does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Holliss before her.

Real people
Hollis Frampton
American avant-garde filmmaker.
1936 – 1984
Hollis Wong-Wear
American producer.
born 1988
In fiction
Hollis Mason
Nite Owl in Watchmen.
1986

Names connected to Hollis.

The number behind Hollis.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hollis reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.