Family name origins & meanings
- North German : from Middle Low German hōn ‘chicken’, hence a nickname, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who raised poultry.
- North German : topographic name from an old word, hon, meaning ‘bog’.
- North German : variant of Hoehn 2.
- South German (Höhn) : variant of Hoehne.
- South German : from an aphetic form of the personal name Johann(es) (see John).