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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure, from Middle Dutch haghe ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’ + man ‘man’.
  • Respelling of German Hagemann.
  • Swedish : either of German origin (see Hagemann), or an ornamental or topographic name from Swedish hage ‘enclosed pasture’ + man ‘man’.

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