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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Hässig) : from an adjectival form of the regional name Hesse, denoting someone from that territory (see Hess).
  • German (Hässig) : from a short form of a Germanic personal name, possibly one formed with hadu ‘strife’ or from a pet form of Hermann or Heinrich.
  • German (Hässig) : unflattering nickname from Middle High German hazzec, hezzec ‘hostile’, ‘malevolent’.

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