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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Hölck) : probably from an old personal name (see Hilke).
  • Danish or Americanized spelling of German (Franconian) Holch, a nickname for a pious man, from Middle High German heilec ‘holy’.

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