Holter Family History

English (Sussex): topographic name for someone who lived by a holt, a small wood, + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. North German (also Hölter): habitational name from places called Holter or Hölter. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southeastern Norway, from the indefinite plural of holt ‘holt’, ‘small wood’ (see Holt).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press