Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : topographic name for someone living by a tall tree, or possibly a nickname for a tall man, literally meaning ‘tall tree’.
- Dutch : habitational name from places called Hoogboom and Hogenboom in the Belgian province of Antwerp, named with the same elements as 1.
- Dutch : The name Hoogeboom is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.
