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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Hessmann) and Dutch : nickname or occupational name for a chaser at a hunt, from Middle High German hessen ‘to hunt with hounds’.
  • German (Hessmann) and Dutch : from a derivative of the personal name Hesso (see Hess 3).

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