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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, so named from the definite singular form of Old Norse hóll ‘round hill’, ‘mound’ (see Hole).
  • Shortened form of Dutch van (den) Holen, a variant of Hole 2.

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