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holstein Name Meaning and History

German: regional name from the province of Holstein, long disputed between Germany and Denmark. This gets its name from holsten, the dative plural, originally used after a preposition, of holst, from Middle Low German holt-sate ‘dweller in the woods’ (from Middle Low German holt ‘wood’ + sate, sete ‘tenant’). The final syllable has been erroneously altered by analogy with North German Steen ‘stone’, which in South German and standard German has the form Stein.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The holstein name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the holstein family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of holstein Families in the US in 1920
Number of holstein families
 49-96
 17-48		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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