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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of a nobleman (Middle English hold(e)).
  • English : variant of Oldman, derived from Old English (e)ald ‘old’ + mann ‘man’.
  • North German (Holdmann) : topographic name from Middle Low German holt ‘small wood’ + man ‘man’.

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