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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from hegg ‘bird cherry (tree)’.
  • Respelling of Swedish Hägg, an ornamental name of the same etymology as 1.
  • Swiss German : spelling variant of Heck 2.

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