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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Hugo (see Hugh).
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Hauge, from the dative singular of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’.
  • Danish : habitational name from a place so named or a topographic name from have ‘garden’ or Old Norse hagi ‘enclosure’.

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