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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Hildo (see Hildebrand, Houde).
  • French : habitational name from any of several places in Normandy called La Houle or Les Houles, named in Old French with the singular or plural of houle ‘cave’.
  • English : variant of Hole.

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