Holý
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: bald; hairless (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɦoliː/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated · uncertain
Holý is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 3,369 people, counted by MVČR.
- CZCzechia1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 13K
- SISlovenia1 in 162K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
3,369 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Holý
- Czech:/ɦoliː/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Slovak:/ɦɔɫiː/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bald; hairless
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Holý is read
(measured from records)Holý is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Czech85%
bald; hairless
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Slovak13%
naked
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Holý is found
(measured from records)Holý counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #819 | 3,369 | 1 in 3.2K | 3.4K | Holý | 62 |
| US United States | — | 829 | 1 in 401K | 858 | — | 68 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 421 | 1 in 13K | 421 | Holý | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 626K | listed | — | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 460K | 1 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 31 | 1 in 271K | 31 | — | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | 22 | 1 in 192K | 26 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 13 | 1 in 162K | 13 | — | 1 |
3,369 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ladislav Holýb. 1933GBCzech anthropologist (1933-1997)
- Antonín Holýb. 1936CZCzech scientist (1936–2012)
- Tomáš Holýb. 1991CZCzech association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Holý mean, and where does it come from?
- bald; hairless Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Holý?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ɦoliː/; in Slovak /ɦɔɫiː/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Holý?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Holý, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holý. After it come United States, Slovakia, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Holý most common?
- Holý is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Holý?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3,369 people named Holý, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Holý compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Holý is the 819th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hol%C3%BDThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Holý” — ranked 281st in Czechia (naše jména). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.