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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedged or fenced enclosure (Old English haga), or a habitational name from a place named with this word (or its Old Norse cognate hagi), especially three places called Haigh, two in West Yorkshire and the other near Manchester.

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