Holten Family History

Dutch (also Van Holten) and North German: habitational name from any of the places so called from Low German holt ‘holt copse small wood’. There are two in the Dutch province of Overijssel and another near Oberhausen in the Rhineland.

Danish: variant of Holt. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named either from the definite singular form of holt ‘holt small wood’ (see Holt) or from holt ‘hill stony slope’.

English (Devon and Cornwall): variant of Holton.