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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a cook, Anglo-Norman French k(i)eu (from Latin coquus).
  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Caieu, a lost place near Boulogne in Northern France.
  • English : habitational name from a place in Middlesex, now part of Greater London, probably named with Old English cǣg ‘key’, ‘projection’ + hōh ‘spur of land’.
  • Irish : Ulster variant of McHugh.

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