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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : regional name from the coastal district of eastern Yorkshire (now Humberside), the origin of which is probably Old Norse hǫldr, within the Danelaw (the region of pre-conquest England where Danish rule and custom was dominant) a rank of feudal nobility immediately below that of earl, + nes ‘nose’, ‘headland’.

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