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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Holly

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places called Olney in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. The former is named in Old English as Ollanēg ‘island of a man called Olla’; the latter is from Old English āna ‘one’, ‘single’, ‘solitary’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, with later metathesis of -nl- to -ln-.

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