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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Sussex) : topographic name for someone who lived by a holt, a small wood, + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
  • North German (also Hölter) : habitational name from places called Holter or Hölter.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southeastern Norway, from the indefinite plural of holt ‘holt’, ‘small wood’ (see Holt).

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