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haugh Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (mainly County Clare): shortened form of O’Haugh, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEachach ‘descendant of Eochu’, possibly a pet form of Eochaidh, Eachaidh (see Haughey).
  2. English: topographic name from Middle English haw, haugh ‘enclosure’ (Old English haga), or a habitational name from a place named with this word such as Haugh in Lincolnshire. Compare Haw.
  3. English: topographic name for someone who lived in a nook or hollow, from Middle English haulgh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’, ‘recess’ (Old English h(e)alh; see Hale), or a habitational name from Haulgh in Lancashire, named from this word.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of haugh Families in the US in 1920
Number of haugh families
 91-179
 31-90
 1-30
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 58 - Messages: 174
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Haugh,Neary,Blessing, Styles,Schintzius,Wehrfritz,Goergen,Williams,Smith Burket_Prato 1
James Thomas Haugh James Duane Shippy 3
The Girls Who Went Away Nouwen 0
Haugh from Nenagh, Ireland Charles J. MacDonald 0
George Haugh/Hawk: 1833(Md)-1900(Oh) mar Caroline Roberta Hawk 16
Haugh immigrants John J. Haugh 5
Haugh, Haag, Hauck etc German immigrant to PA 1733 dickholben1 10
Legend of Haugh Hollow shanon_thomas 7
Haugh WaynePitcher1 0
Haughs from Ireland to Washington County, NY or VT Heidi 0
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