The holbrook Surname
holbrook Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example
in Derbyshire, Dorset, and Suffolk, so called from Old English
hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’ + broc ‘stream’. The name has
probably absorbed the Dutch surname van Hoobroek, found in
London in the early 17th century, and possibly a similar Low German
surname (Holbrock or Halbrock). Several American bearers
of the name in the 1880 census give their place of birth as Oldenburg
or Hannover, Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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