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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Norse : Island
  • Norse : Lakeside hill; careful

Boy name variations

Holms

Holms

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Holmes

Holmes

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Hume

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English, German, and Scandinavian : topographic name for someone who lived on an island, in particular a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams, Middle English, Middle Low German holm, Old Norse holmr, or a habitational name from a place named with this element. The Swedish name is often ornamental.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived where holly grew, from Middle English holm, a variant of holin ‘holly’, or possibly a habitational name from places called Holme (Dorset and West Yorkshire) or Holne (Devon), named with this word.