Frequency: (458)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or copse, from hult, holt ‘grove’, ‘copse’ (Old Norse holt).
GIVEN NAMES: Scandinavian 9%. Nels, Sten.
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