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Type Surname (from location)
Other Forms FormsHolbrock; Halbrock;

Meaning & History

English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Derbyshire, Dorset, and Suffolk, so called from Old English hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’ + broc ‘stream’.
The name has probably absorbed the Dutch surname van Hoobroek, found in London in the early 17th century, and possibly a similar Low German surname (Holbrock or Halbrock). Several American bearers of the name in the 1880 census give their place of birth as Oldenburg or Hannover, Germany.
Added 5/14/2014 by LMS
Edited 12/2/2021 by Frollein Gladys, ShioTanbo1 and LMS