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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German hol ‘hollow’, ‘hole’.
  • German : from a short form of Hold.
  • German (Höll) : variant of Helle 2, found chiefly in Bavaria.

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