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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a servant (Middle English man) of a man named Hake (see Hake).
  • Respelling of German Hackmann, or a Jewish spelling variant of this name.
  • Respelling of German Hachmann, topographic name for someone living near a hedge or enclosure, from Middle Low German hach ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’, ‘fenced pasture or woodland’, or habitational name from a place called Hachum (dialect Hachen) in Lower Saxony.

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