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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : Probably an altered spelling of Hautz, an argot word (thieves’ slang) in Bavaria and Austria for a peasant farmer.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with hug ‘mind’ (see Hugo).

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