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The hollingsworth Surname

hollingsworth Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. 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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Distribution of hollingsworth Families in the US in 1920
Number of hollingsworth families
 72-141
 25-71		 1-24
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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