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Family name origins & meanings
- English, North German, Danish, and Norwegian : topographic name for someone who lived in or by a small wood, Middle English, Middle Low German, Danish, Norwegian holt, or a habitational name from one of the very many places named with this word. In England the surname is widely distributed, but rather more common in Lancashire than elsewhere.
- Shortened form of Dutch van Holt, a habitational name from places named Holt (see 1).