Last name origins & meanings:
- English: probably a variant of Halston, which is partly
a habitational name from Halston in Shropshire, possibly named with
the Old English personal name Ealh + tūn
‘settlement’, and partly derived from the Old Norse personal name
Halsteinn. Alternatively, it may perhaps be a habitational name
from Holstone in County Durham, so named from Old English hol
‘hollow’ + stān ‘stone’.
- Possibly an Americanized form of Holstein.
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