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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German hac ‘enclosure’, ‘hedge’.
  • Dutch : variant of Haag.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from the Old Norse indefinite singular form hagi ‘enclosure’ (see Haga). This surname is also established in Sweden.

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