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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech : nickname from a derivative of holý ‘naked’, ‘bare’, or ‘clean-shaven’ (see Holy).
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farms, chiefly in Trøndelag, so named from hol, definite plural form of Old Norse hóll ‘round hill’, ‘mound’.

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