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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : patronymic from the personal name Haug, a German form of Hugh.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from the indefinite plural form of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’.

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