English (mainly Lancashire): habitational name from places in
Lancashire and West Yorkshire, both so named from Old English
hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’, ‘deep’ + denu ‘valley’. Compare
Holcombe.
German: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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