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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : occupational name from Middle Low German hoke, hoker ‘huckster’, ‘hawker’, ‘peddler’ or possibly from Middle Low German hake ‘young fellow’.
  • North German and Dutch : from Middle Low German hāke, Dutch haak ‘hook’ (e.g. a fish-hook), perhaps a nickname for someone with some deformity such as a hunch back or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used hooks.

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