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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Old English: Holly bush
  2. Old English: Holy day; grove of holly trees

First name variations: Hollye, Holli, Hollie, Hollyn, Holea, Holeah, Holee, Hollei, Holleigh, Hollye, Holy, Holliss, Hollister, Hollie, Hollys, Hollyss, Hollis

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Irish: part-translation of Gaelic Mac Cuilinn (see McCullen) in County Kerry, and in Ulster sometimes a variant of McQuillan, also an Anglicized form of Mac Cuilinn. It is rarely of English origin.
  2. English: variant spelling of Holley.
  3. Possibly an altered spelling of Czech or Slovak Holý (see Holy).

Famous people who gave their babies this name: Michael Bolton, Terry Gilliam

This name appears in the following lists: Alliterative Names, Flowers and Trees, Literary Characters, Rock Kings and Queens

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