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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : habitational name from any of a number of places named with horik ‘corner’, ‘hook’, such as Horrink in Turnhout, in the Belgian province of Antwerp, or Hooring in Brabant.
  • German : possibly from a Germanic personal name beginning with hugi ‘thinking mind’.

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