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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of Norwegian Stokholm, a habitational name from a farmstead in Hordaland named Skotholmen, from skot (related to skyta ‘shoot’, denoting a land formation that juts out) + holme ‘islet’.
  • In some cases possibly a habitational name for someone from Stockholm, Sweden, presumably adopted on arrival in the U.S., since this name is not used in Scandinavia.

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