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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone living in a hollow, from Middle English hole ‘hollow’.
  • German and Dutch : topographic name for someone living in a hollow or a wooded ravine, from Middle High German, Middle Low German hol (see Holl 1).
  • German and Danish : variant of Holder 1.

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