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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the medieval personal name Hodge, a short form of Roger. (For the change of initial, compare Hick.)
  • English : nickname from Middle English hodge ‘hog’, which occurs as a dialect variant of hogge, for example in Cheshire place names.

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