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English : habitational name from Holmer in Buckinghamshire and Herefordshire, both named with Old English hol ‘hollow’ + mere ‘pool’.English : topographic name for someone who lived either on a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams or where holly grew, from a derivative of Middle English holm (see Holm 1 and 2).Swedish, Danish, and North German (Schleswig-Holstein) : topographic name for someone who lived on an island (see Holm).
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English (chiefly central and northern England)
English (chiefly central and northern England) : variant of Holme.Scottish : probably a habitational name from Holmes near Dundonald, or from a place so called in the barony of Inchestuir.Scottish and Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thomáis, Mac Thómais (see McComb). In part of western Ireland, Holmes is a variant of Cavish (from Gaelic Mac Thámhais, another patronymic from Thomas).John Holmes came from England to Woodstock, CT, in 1686. His descendants include the Congregational clergyman and historian Abiel Holmes, born 1763 in Woodstock, and Abiel’s son Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–94).
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English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish
English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish : variant spelling of Holme.
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Northern English, German, and Scandinavian
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.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant spelling of Holme.
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English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish
English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main development was towards modern English holly (see Hollis).English and Scottish : topographic name or habitational name from northern Middle English holm ‘island’, Old Norse holmr (see Holm 1).Danish and Swedish : variant of Holm 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so named from the dative singular of Old Norse holmr ‘islet’, ‘low flat land beside a river’.
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : occupational name for a maker of helmets, from the adopted Old French term he(a)umier, from he(a)ume ‘helmet’, of Germanic origin. Compare Helm 2.English : variant of Holmer.Americanized form of the Greek family name Homiros or one of its patronymic derivatives (Homirou, Homiridis, etc.). This was not only the name of the ancient Greek epic poet (classical Greek Homēros), but was also borne by a martyr venerated in the Greek Orthodox Church.Slovenian : topographic name for someone who lived on a hill, from hom (dialect form of holm ‘hill’, ‘height’) + the German suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.The American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) was of old New England stock dating back to Captain John Homer, an Englishman who crossed the Atlantic in his own ship and settled in Boston about 1636.
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English (chiefly southern) and Dutch
English (chiefly southern) and Dutch : topographic name for a dweller in a hollow (see Hole).English (chiefly southern) : topographic name for a dweller by a holly tree or on an island, from Middle English holm (see Holme) + man.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from Wignal, a minor place near Holmes in the parish of Croston, so named from the genitive case of the Old English byname Wicga (see Wigley) + Old English h(e)alh ‘nook’, ‘corner’, ‘recess’.
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English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : perhaps a variant of Holme.
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Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from a place in southern Scotland near Hawick, so named from Old English denu ‘valley’ + holm ‘piece of dry land in a fen’ (see Holme 2).English : habitational name from Denholme in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English denu ‘valley’ + Old Norse holmr ‘water meadow’.
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