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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (South Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of various places in South Yorkshire named with Old English hōh ‘hill spur’ + land ‘(cultivated) land’.
  • English : variant of Holland 1.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, notably in southwestern Norway, named in Old Norse as Heyland, from hey ‘hay’ + land ‘(piece of) land’.

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