The surname Holland is a habitational name from Holland, a division of Lincolnshire, or any of the eight villages in various parts of England so called, from Old English hoh ‘ridge’ + land ‘land’.  When found in Ireland the name Holland is an anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÓileáin, a variant of Ó hAoláin, from a form of Faolan. Today there are approximately 100,000 bearers of the surname Holland living in The United States.