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holbrook Name Meaning and 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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of holbrook Families in the US in 1920
Number of holbrook families
 178-354
 60-177		 1-59
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