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Meaning & Origins
Name borne in classical legend by the Trojan champion who was killed by the Greek Achilles. His name (Greek Hektōr) is probably an agent derivative of Greek ekhein ‘to restrain’. It was never popular in England, but there are occasional examples from the Middle Ages. In Scotland it was used as a classicized form of the Gaelic personal name Eachann, which is composed of each ‘horse’ + donn ‘brown’. It has been moderately popular in the United States since the 1940s.
| 426th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Spanish: habitational name from any of the several places, as for example Medina-Sidonia in Cádiz province and Medina del Campo in Valladolid, so called from Arabic medīna ‘city’. The surname is also borne by Sephardic Jews.
| 221st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Hecter, Hectar, Hectore, Hectro, Hectoria, Hester, Hectoer, Hectory, Hectir, Hectora
Mcginn, Medici, Medinger, Medin, Medico, Magin, Medine, Meditz, Mesina, Madina
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