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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Howgill in Sedbergh or from Hugill, Cumbria. Howgill is named from Old Norse hol ‘hollow’ + gil ‘ravine’; Hugill probably takes its name from Old Norse hór ‘high’ + geil ‘ravine’.

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