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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Lancashire and Northumberland. The former is named from Old English hōh ‘spur of a hill’ or hōc ‘hook’ + wīc ‘outlying farm’; the latter probably originally had as its first element Old English hēah ‘high’, but was later influenced by hōh.

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