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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Sussex and Kent) : from a pet form of Hugh.
  • English (chiefly Sussex and Kent) : habitational name from Huggate in East Yorkshire, possibly named in Old Norse with hugr ‘mound’ (an unattested variant of haugr) + gata ‘road’.

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