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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : habitational name from places called Hoek, e.g. in Ghent or Zeeland, or from Hoeke in West Flanders, or a topographic name from hoek ‘corner’, ‘nook’.
  • Dutch : variant of Houck 1.

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