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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German holz ‘small wood’, ‘copse’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Holz ‘wood’, either an ornamental name or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or someone who sold wood.

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