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- Holly_(name) comment "Holly is an English-language surname and given name.As an English or Irish surname (variant Holley) it is either locational, ultimately derived an Old English hol lēah \"[dwelling by] the clearing by the hollow\", or descriptive, from hol-ēage \"hollow-eyed\". In Ireland, it was also used as a translation of the name Mac Cuilinn, which is derived from cuileann, the Gaelic name of the holly tree, and by extension sometimes of the similar sounding McQuillan surname of Ulster.".