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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and German : variant of Holbein.
  • English : habitational name from either of two places named in Devon and Kent named Holbeam, from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + bēam ‘tree’, or from Holbeanwood in Ticehurst, a minor place in Sussex.

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