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Literary Characters: Holden Caulfield
Holden

Name origin: Old English

Name meaning: Valley

 
Caulfield

Name origin: English, Scottish, and Irish

Name meaning: probably a habitational name from a place in England or Scotland named with Old English cald ‘cold’ + feld ‘open country’. There is a Cauldfield near Langholm in Dumfriesshire which is a probable source of the name.

 
 
 
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