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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Frisian : patronymic from the personal name Holger.
  • Respelling of Danish and Norwegian Holgersen, or Swedish Holgersson, a patronymic (cognate with 1) from the Old Danish and Swedish personal name Holmger, composed of the elements holm ‘islet’ + -gēr, ‘spear’.

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