Hoyland Family History
Hoyland Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Derbyshire): habitational name from any of the four places of this name in southern Yorkshire: Nether and Upper Hoyland (in Wath upon Dearne) High Hoyland (in Barnsley) and Hoyland Swaine (in Penistone). The placenames all derive from Old English hōh ‘heel spur of land’ + land ‘land’. Norwegian (Høyland): habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads notably in southwestern Norway named in Old Norse as Heyland from hey ‘hay’ + land ‘(piece of) land farmstead’. Compare Highland Hoiland and Hyland .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022