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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a spur of a hill, Old English hōh (literally, ‘heel’).
  • German : from the Germanic personal name Hufo, a short form of a compound name formed with hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ as the first element.

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