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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Hougham, Kent, probably so named from an unattested Old English personal name, Huhha, or possibly hōh ‘spur of a hill’ (literally ‘heel’) + hām ‘homestead’.

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