Hollywood Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Hollywood Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Hollywood

The ancient history of the name Hollywood was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Holywood, Holliwood, Holliewood, Holly and Hollie. This is usually a locational name describing a person who lived near a holly wood or who lived near holly plants. Over the centuries names were changed according to how they sounded and were pronounced with the same name often being both spelled and pronounced differently in neighbouring towns and cities. The name Hollywood is usually of English origin and spread from England to the rest of Europe and from there to America, Canada, Australia and the new world beyond. In Ireland the name Holly and its variants are usually anglicized forms of the Gaelic MacCuilinn sept name. A sept or clan was a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. This Gaelic name was changed to the names Holly, McCullin, Holley, McQuillan and several others. Other bearers of the name Hollywood may have taken their name from the famous district in the central region of Los Angeles in California.