Hahn (family name)

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Meaning and origin

Rooster:

  1. In Middle High German, it was taken over by han (e) ("cock") for a proud, argumentative person.
  2. Family name derived from a shortened form of Johannes .
  3. Occasionally this family name can be based on a house name. See the Freiburg document Clewy zem Hane ( a.1437 ).
  4. Name of origin for the common place names Hahn, Hagen, Hain.

Name bearer

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  • Ida Hahn-Hahn (1805–1880), German writer and founder of the order
  • Ingo Hahn (* 1971), German geographer, ecologist and politician (AfD), MdL
  • István Hahn (1913–1984), Hungarian ancient historian and university professor

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Duden, surnames, Dudenverlag, Mannheim - Leipzig - Vienna - Zurich, 2005, p. 303