The English surname Hollis is a topographic name for someone who lived where holly trees grew, from the Middle English term holi(n)s, plural of holin, holi(e) (Old English ). The name is first recorded in Nottinghamshire in the 11th Century. The earliest records of the name in the New World occur in 1623 when John and Edith Hollis arrived in Virginia. Today there are approximately 28,000 bearers of the name Hollis living in the United States.
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