The hollingsworth Surname
hollingsworth Name Meaning and History
- English and Irish: habitational name from places in Cheshire and Lancashire called Hollingworth, from Old English hole(g)n ‘holly’ + worð ‘enclosure’. The surname was taken to Ireland in the 17th century.
- Jewish (American): presumably an Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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