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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : variant of Hochsang, topographic name for someone who lived in a high forest clearing made by burning, from Middle High German hōhe ‘high’ + gesang, collective noun from sengen ‘to burn’.
  • South German : nickname meaning ‘festival chorus’.

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