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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (southern) : patronymic from Haw 2.
  • English (southern) : from a Norman female personal name, Haueis, from Germanic Haduwidis, composed of the elements hadu ‘strife’, ‘contention’ + widi ‘wide’.

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