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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Holstad, from Hol- (probably derived from a personal name such as Old Norse Hávarðr, Ólafr) + -stad from staðir ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

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