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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived in a wood, from Holtz + the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a woodcutter or someone who sold wood, from an agent derivative of German Holz ‘wood’.

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