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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of Norwegian Høgset(h) (see Hogsett).
  • English : Reaney and Wilson record a 17th-century example of this name in Devon. Evidently an uncomplimentary nickname meaning ‘hog’s head’, it is no longer found in the British Isles.

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