Last name: HOLLOWAY
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HOLLOWAY : This last name is indexed 156,429 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HOLLOWAY : English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) sunken road’ from Middle English hol(g)h ‘hollow’ + weie ‘way road’ (Old English holh + weg) or else a habitational name from any of numerous places so named such as Holloway (Middlesex) or Holway (Somerset). In Ireland (Leinster) the name has sometimes been Gaelicized as Ó hAilmhic (see Hulvey).
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