The hagg Surname
hagg Name Meaning and History
- Swedish (Hägg): ornamental name from hägg ‘bird cherry’ (Prunus padus). This is one of the surnames drawn from the vocabulary of nature and adopted more or less arbitrarily in the 19th century.
- English: from Old Norse Hagi, which has been identified as a byname from hagr ‘deft’, ‘dextrous’, although it could equally well be a habitational name meaning ‘the enclosure’, see Hagen.
- South German: variant of Haack.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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