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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a variant of Hau 5, a settler on a Hau when these units were changed to agricultural land; or an occupational name for a butcher, a woodcutter, or a stonemason, from Middle High German houwen ‘to chop’ + man ‘man’. Compare Hauer.

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