as a Last Name
- 1,393
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hugh
Meaning & Origins
English: from the Old French personal name Hu(gh)e, introduced to Britain by the Normans. This is in origin a short form of any of the various Germanic compound names with the first element hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’. Compare, for example, Howard 1, Hubble, and Hubert. It was a popular personal name among the Normans in England, partly due to the fame of St. Hugh of Lincoln (1140–1200), who was born in Burgundy and who established the first Carthusian monastery in England.
| 20,085th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,393
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Hampshire
- has the most people named Hugh per capita
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