Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
- In Ireland
and Scotland this name has been widely used as an equivalent of Celtic
Aodh ‘fire’, the source of many Irish surnames (see for example
McCoy).
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