name: A surname (common: 1 in 20000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #2587)
noun: Small island, islet.
noun: An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
noun: (dialect, chiefly West Yorkshire(?), Scotland, Orkney) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme.
noun: Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.
noun: (obsolete outside dialects) The holly.
noun: A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.