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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Heger.
  • German : habitational name from Hegnau near Zurich, or Hegne on Lake Constance.
  • Danish : topographic name from hegen ‘hedge’ + agent suffix -er.

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