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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Norwegian Hōgset(h), a habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, mostly from Old Norse Heggsetr, a compound of heggr ‘bird cherry (tree)’ + setr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

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