Last name origins & meanings:
- German and Dutch: topographic name from Middle High German
hac ‘enclosure’, ‘hedge’, Middle Dutch haghe, or a
habitational name from any of the many places named with this
word.
- Shortened form of Dutch Van den Haag, a habitational
name from The Hague.
- South German and Swiss German: from the
Germanic personal name Hago, a short form of any of the various
compound names beginning with hagan ‘enclosure’, ‘protected
place’, ‘scrub’.
- Swedish: probably an ornamental adoption
of the German name.
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