as a Last Name
- 4,227
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hollingshead
Meaning & Origins
English (northern): habitational name from a lost place in County Durham called Hollingside or Holmside, from Old English hole(g)n ‘holly’ + sīde ‘hillside’, ‘slope’; there is a Hollingside Lane on the southern outskirts of Durham city. In some cases it may be from Hollinhead in Lancashire, so named from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + hēafod ‘headland’, ‘ridge’.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,227
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Hollingshead per capita
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