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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Essex) : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex and West Midlands. The former is so called from the Old English personal name Hocca or hocc ‘mallow’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; the latter from the personal name Hucca + hlāw ‘hill’.

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