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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name composed of hagin ‘enclosure’, ‘fenced area’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘illustrious’, or of the elements hugi ‘thinking mind’ + bald ‘bold’, ‘quick’.

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