Hugo (name)

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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

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

family name

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

  1. Vladimir Orel (Владимир Эммануилович Орел; February 9, 1952 - August 5, 2007) was a Russian linguist .
  2. Part 2: Register - created by Robert Nedoma and Hermann Reichert, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1718-3 .