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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge or enclosure, from Middle High German hac ‘enclosure’, ‘hedge’, Middle Low German hage + mann ‘man’.
  • Danish : either of German origin (see 1) or an occupational name for a gardener, Danish haghman.

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