First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
German: from Middle High German habech ‘hawk’, hence a nickname for someone who was thought to resemble the bird or a metonymic occupational name for someone who trained hawks for hunting (see Hawk).