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. Notable bearers ofthe surname Holland include Thomas Holland the first Duke of Suffolk. Born on 8 September 1372, Thomas Holland was the eldest son and heir of Thomas Holland, the second Eral of Kent (1350–1397), and Alice FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, third Earl of Arundel. His father was a maternal half-brother of King Richard II, and the younger Thomas had two brothers and six sisters.
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