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holder Name Meaning and History

  1. German: topographic name for someone who lived by an elder tree, Middle High German holder, or from a house named for its sign of an elder tree. In same areas, for example Alsace, the elder tree was believed to be the protector of a house.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Holder ‘elder tree’.
  3. English (chiefly western counties): occupational name for a tender of animals, from an agent derivative of Middle English hold(en) ‘to guard or keep’ (Old English h(e)aldan). It is possible that this word was also used in the wider sense of a holder of land within the feudal system. Compare Helder.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of holder Families in the US in 1920
Number of holder families
 136-269
 46-135		 1-45
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