Holland Family History
- Holland Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÓileáin, a variant of Ó hAoláin, from a form of Faolán (with loss of the initial F-), a personal name representing a diminutive of faol ‘wolf’. Compare Whelan. English and Scottish: habitational name from Holland, a division of Lincolnshire, or any of the eight villages in various parts of England so called, from Old English hoh ‘ridge’ + land ‘land’. The Scottish name may also be from places called Holland in Orkney, Houlland in Shetland, Hollandbush in Stirlingshire, and Holland-Hirst in the parish of Kirkintilloch. English, German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Danish, and Dutch: regional name from Holland, a province of the Netherlands.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,085,613 Historical Documents with Holland on Ancestry
- 1,599,464 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 915,203 Census and Voter Lists
- 159,832 Military Records
- 110,704 Immigration Records
- 2,300,410 Member Trees
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Number of Holland families
 2,409 - 4,816  804 - 2,408 |
 1 - 803  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Holland families
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88 - 174 30 - 87 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Holland census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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