Hugo (name)
Hugo is a first name and family name .
Origin and meaning
The name is of Germanic origin based on the old Germanic male personal name * hug- , derived from the Germanic strong masculine * xuʒiz, xuʒuz = hugi-z for understanding, thinking spirit. Compare Dutch : heugen = memory or the raven Hugin from Norse mythology. See also Hubert or Old High German Hugbert .
variants
First names
With this first name are u. a. the following first names in connection:
family name
- Hauck
- Haug
- Hauger
- Hauptert (from althd. Hugo and althd. Beraht)
- Hubert (from althd. Hugo and althd. Beraht)
- Yikes
- Hupert (from althd. Hugo and althd. Beraht)
- Huppert (from althd. Hugo and althd. Beraht)
- Hug
- Hugues
- Huygens
name day
The name day is on April 28 , the anniversary of the death of Hugo von Cluny , or in Austria on April 1 , the anniversary of the death of St. Hugo von Grenoble .
Well-known namesake
For rulers and clergy, see the list of rulers named Hugo .
First name
- Hugo Metellus (approx. 1080 – approx. 1150), Augustinian canon in Toul, master's degree, poet and writer of letters
- Hugo von Floreffe , Middle Latin author and Premonstratensian monk, who worked in Floreffe (near Namur) around 1228
- Hugo von Langenstein (attested between 1271 and 1298), Middle High German poet
- Hugo Junkers (1859–1935), German engineer and entrepreneur
- Hugo Türpe (1859-1891), German musician
- Hugo Wolf (1860–1903), Austrian-Slovenian composer
- Hugo Preuss (1860–1925), German constitutional law teacher and politician
- Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), German zeppelin aeronaut
- Hugo Stinnes (1870–1924), German industrialist
- Hugo Simberg (1873–1917), Finnish painter and graphic artist
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Austrian writer
- Hugo Süchting (1874–1916), German chess player
- Hugo Hardy (1877–1936), German tennis player and lawyer
- Hugo Peitsch (1878-19 ??), German gymnast
- Hugo Iltis (1882–1952), Czech botanist, Mendel biographer and racist
- Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967), American publisher and science fiction author
- Hugo Hirsch (1884–1961), German operetta and hit composer
- Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948), German textile entrepreneur
- Hugo Gieseking (1887–1915), German mathematician
- Hugo Urban-Emmerich (1887–1939), Czechoslovak entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Hugo Urbahns (1890–1946), German politician
- Hugo Leipziger-Pearce (1902–1998), German architect
- Hugo Butler (1914–1968), Canadian screenwriter
- Hugo Imfeld (1916–1993), Swiss sculptor, relief artist, graphic artist and draftsman
- Hugo Staudinger (1921-2004), German historian and science theorist
- Hugo Strasser (1922–2016), German clarinetist and band leader
- Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009), Swiss writer
- Hugo Claus (1929–2008), Flemish writer
- Hugo Dudli (1930–2004), Swiss composer
- Hugo Rasmussen (1941–2015), Danish jazz bassist
- Hugo Simon (* 1942), Austrian show jumper
- Hugo Dittberner (* 1944), German writer
- Hugo Egon Balder (* 1950), German television presenter
- Hugo Hamilton (* 1953), Irish writer
- Hugo Chávez (1954–2013), Venezuelan President
- Hugo Weaving (born 1960), Australian actor
- Hugo Antunes (* 1974), Portuguese jazz and improvisation musician
- Hugo Campagnaro (* 1980), Argentinian football player
- Hugo Almeida (* 1984), Portuguese football player
- Hugo Lloris (* 1986), French football goalkeeper
family name
- Abel Hugo (1798–1855), French essayist
- Aemil Hugo (1802–1860), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- August Johann von Hugo (1686–1760), German physician
- Chad Hugo (* 1974), American music producer
- Charles Hugo , French sailor
- Christian Hugo (* 1962), German physician
- Christian Johann Brandan Hugo (1725–1804), German librarian
- Conrad von Hugo (1844–1911), German infantry general
- Dan Hugo (* 1985), South African triathlete
- Dorette Hugo (* 1965), German voice actress
- Emil Hugo (1802–1860), German lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Francis Hugo (1870–1930), American lawyer and politician (Republican Party)
- Friedrich von Hugo (1854–1922), German lieutenant general
- Graeme Hugo (1946–2015), Australian demographer and geographer
- Gustav von Hugo (1764–1844), German lawyer
- Hasso von Hugo (painter) (1897–1945), German painter
- Hasso von Hugo (make-up artist) (* 1946), German make-up artist
- Hector Hugo (* 1972), Mexican actor
- Herman Hugo (1588–1629), Belgian Jesuit and poet
- Johannes Hug (1455–1505), German author and clergyman
- Julius von Hugo (1870–1936), German landowner and politician
- Klaus Hugo (1928–2007), German composer and producer
- Leda Hugo (* 1963), Mozambican agricultural scientist and politician (FRELIMO)
- Ludolf Hugo (1632–1704), German lawyer and politician
- Ludwig Maria Hugo (1871–1935), German clergyman, bishop of Mainz
- Manfred Hugo (* 1942), German lawyer and district administrator
- Melchior von Hugo (1872–1939), German officer, painter and sculptor
- Michael Hugo (* 1962), German politician and human rights activist
- Michel Hugo (born Michel Squarciafico ; 1930–2010), French-American cameraman
- Nana von Hugo (born Maria-Renate Renner ; 1936–2001), German designer and architect
- Oskar von Hugo (1840–1919), German lieutenant general
- Otto Hugo (1878–1942), German politician (DVP)
- Pieter Hugo (* 1976), South African photographer
- Richard Hugo , pseudonym of Ricarda Huch (1864–1947), German writer and poet
- Richard Hugo (writer) (1923–1982), American poet and writer
- Uschi Hugo (* 1972), German voice actress
- Valentine Hugo (1887–1968), French painter, illustrator and costume designer
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer
- Vítor Hugo (futsal player, 1982) ( Vítor Hugo Fernandes Moreira ; * 1982), Portuguese futsal goalkeeper
- Vítor Hugo (futsal player, 1984) ( Vítor Hugo Rosário Mendes Correia ; * 1984), Portuguese futsal player
- Vitor Hugo (football player, 1988) ( Vítor Hugo da Trindade Sagres ; * 1988), Portuguese football player
- Vitor Hugo (soccer player, 1991) ( Vitor Hugo Franchescoli de Souza ; * 1991), Brazilian soccer player
- Vitor Hugo (soccer player, 1993) ( Vítor Hugo Monteiro da Silva ; * 1993), Brazilian soccer player
- Wilhelm Hugo (1906–1942), German resistance fighter
literature
- Vladimir Orel: A Handbook of Germanic Etymology . Brill, Leiden - Boston 2003, ISBN 90-04-12875-1 .
- Willibald Kraml, Hermann Reichert : Lexicon of Old Germanic Personal Names Part 1: Text / EDP : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-0931-8 .
- Gottfried Schramm : Namenschatz and poet language - studies on the two-part personal names of the Germanic peoples (= journal for comparative linguistic research in the field of Indo-European languages / supplementary books to the journal for comparative linguistic research in the field of Indo-European languages , supplementary booklet no.15). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1957, DNB 458788333 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vladimir Orel (Владимир Эммануилович Орел; February 9, 1952 - August 5, 2007) was a Russian linguist .
- ↑ Part 2: Register - created by Robert Nedoma and Hermann Reichert, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1718-3 .