The holme Surname
holme Name Meaning and History
- English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main development was towards modern English holly (see Hollis).
- English and Scottish: topographic name or habitational name from northern Middle English holm ‘island’, Old Norse holmr (see Holm 1).
- Danish and Swedish: variant of Holm 1.
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so named from the dative singular of Old Norse holmr ‘islet’, ‘low flat land beside a river’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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