English : habitational name from a place so called in
Shropshire, named in Old English with the element lēah
‘wood’, ‘glade’; the Middle English personal name Hugh (see
Hugh) was prefixed to this in the 12th century, to indicate
ownership.
Possibly an
altered spelling of German Hügli (see Hugley).
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