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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German, Frisian, and Dutch : usually from a pet form of Hildegund, a Germanic female name composed of the elements hild ‘strife’ + gund ‘battle’. The Dutch surname is sometimes derived from a masculine personal name such as Hildebrand or Hilger.

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