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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Danish : from a Germanic personal name Hucger, a compound of hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + gēr ‘spear’.
  • Danish (Høyer, Højer) : variant of Hoy 4.

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