The holston Surname
holston Name Meaning and History
- English: probably a variant of Halston, which is partly a habitational name from Halston in Shropshire, possibly named with the Old English personal name Ealh + tun ‘settlement’, and partly derived from the Old Norse personal name Halsteinn. Alternatively, it may perhaps be a habitational name from Holstone in County Durham, so named from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + stan ‘stone’.
- Possibly an Americanized form of Holstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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