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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Origin uncertain. : Origin uncertain. Perhaps an altered form of English Holdenby, a habitational name from Holdenby in Northamptonshire, which is named with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
  • Origin uncertain. : Alternatively, perhaps, an Americanized form of Holderbaum.

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