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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in Hordaland named Oen, from Old Norse Ó (unexplained), or from any of several named Øen, most from the definite form of øy ‘island’.
  • Dutch : variant of Hoen.

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