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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : metonymic occupational name for a swineherd, from Middle English hog(ge) ‘swine’.
  • Scottish and English : metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English hogg ‘yearling sheep’.
  • German (Högg) : topographic name, a variant of Heck 2, found chiefly in Bavaria.

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