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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a Germanic personal name, Hugizo or Huz o, pet forms of a compound name formed with hug- as the first element (see, for example, Hubert, Hugh).
  • South German : possibly a nickname from Middle High German hotzen ‘to run swiftly’.

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