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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the Germanic personal name Hago, a short form of various Germanic personal names formed with hag ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from German Hacke ‘axe’.

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