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Girl name origins & meanings
- Old English : Holly bush
Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Holy day; grove of holly trees
How Popular Is The Name Holly
Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : part-translation of Gaelic Mac Cuilinn (see McCullen) in County Kerry, and in Ulster sometimes a variant of McQuillan, also an Anglicized form of Mac Cuilinn. It is rarely of English origin.
- English : variant spelling of Holley.
- Possibly an altered spelling of Czech or Slovak Holý (see Holy).