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hahn Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Middle High German hane ‘rooster’, hence a nickname for a conceited or sexually active man. In some instances it may have been a habitational name from a house bearing the sign of a rooster.
  2. German: patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Johannes (see John). This surname is also found in Denmark and Sweden.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Hahn ‘rooster’, one of the many Ashkenazic surnames based on vocabulary words denoting birds or animals.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hahn Families in the US in 1920
Number of hahn families
 362-722
 121-361		 1-120
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