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holmes Name Meaning and History

  1. English (chiefly central and northern England): variant of Holme.
  2. Scottish: probably a habitational name from Holmes near Dundonald, or from a place so called in the barony of Inchestuir.
  3. Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thomáis, Mac Thómais (see McComb). In part of western Ireland, Holmes is a variant of Cavish (from Gaelic Mac Thámhais, another patronymic from Thomas).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of holmes Families in the US in 1920
Number of holmes families
 830-1657
 277-829		 1-276
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