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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Haugh.
  • German : topographic name from Middle High German houfe ‘heap’, e.g. of stones, or in southern Germany, a nickname from the same word in the sense ‘crowd’, ‘group of soldiers’.

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