Dutch and North German (Hülse): topographic name for
someone who lived where holly grew, Middle Low German huls,
hüls.
English (mainly Lancashire):
habitational name from a place in Cheshire, recorded in the mid 13th
century in the forms Holes, Holis, and Holys.
This probably represents a Middle English plural of Old English
holh ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ (see Hole).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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