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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from places called Holling or Hollingen.
  • English, northern Irish, and Scottish : topographic name from Middle English holin ‘holly’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

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