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holt Name Meaning and History

  1. English, North German, Danish, and Norwegian: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a small wood, Middle English, Middle Low German, Danish, Norwegian holt, or a habitational name from one of the very many places named with this word. In England the surname is widely distributed, but rather more common in Lancashire than elsewhere.
  2. Shortened form of Dutch van Holt, a habitational name from places named Holt (see 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of holt Families in the US in 1920
Number of holt families
 332-661
 111-331		 1-110
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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