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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the Germanic personal name Hugo (see Hugh). Compare Hauck.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Haug, from the indefinite singular form of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’.

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