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Hockensmith

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Hackenschmidt, an occupational name for a maker of hoes and axes, from Middle High German hacke ‘hoe’, ‘ax’ + smit ‘smith’.

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