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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German hagedorn ‘hawthorn’, from hac ‘hedge’ + dorn ‘thorn’. Compare Hawthorne. This surname is also well established in Denmark.
  • Dutch : habitational name from the common place name Hagedoorn, of the same etymology as 1.

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