The hoyland Surname
hoyland Name Meaning and History
- English (South Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places in South Yorkshire named with Old English hoh ‘hill spur’ + land ‘(cultivated) land’.
- English: variant of Holland 1.
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, notably in southwestern Norway, named in Old Norse as Heyland, from hey ‘hay’ + land ‘(piece of) land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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