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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from Middle Low German hōn ‘chicken’, hence a nickname, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who raised poultry.
  • North German : topographic name from an old word, hon, meaning ‘bog’.
  • North German : variant of Hoehn 2.
  • South German (Höhn) : variant of Hoehne.
  • South German : from an aphetic form of the personal name Johann(es) (see John).

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