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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Kent) : habitational name, probably from a lost place, Holmherst in Smarden, Kent; Holnest in Dorset is another possibility. Both are named from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + Old English hyrst ‘wooded hill’.
  • English (Kent) : reduced form of Holderness.

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