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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : patronymic from Hegge.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, either from the dative singular of hegg ‘bird cherry (tree)’ or from Old Norse Heggvin (see Hegge).

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