Founded in 1914, Holy Name was the first Catholic high school in the Cleveland area to enroll both male and female students.

The school was originally located on Harvard and Broadway in Cleveland, but in 1977 moved to Queens Highway in Parma Heights, Ohio, to accommodate its growing enrollment.

[1] The move included taking over the all-female Nazareth Academy, which was run by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph.

The article which accompanied the motto was purposeful in its insistence that personal glory in any field of school activity means very little.

[2] In 1961 Frank Solich led the Holy Name squad and defeated Cathedral Latin 12–7, to win the Charity Game.