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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German; North German (Höcker) : variant of Haack 2, with the addition of the agent suffix -er.
  • German (also Höcker) : from a Germanic personal name composed with hugi ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + gēr ‘spear’.

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