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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a swineherd or shepherd, from Middle English hog(ge) ‘hog’, ‘swine’ or hogg ‘yearling sheep’ + herd, hard ‘herdsman’, but see also Hogarth.

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