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The haut Surname

haut Name Meaning and History

  1. French: nickname from haut ‘high’ (Latin altus plus initial h said to be due to the influence of Frankish hoh), usually denoting a haughty or proud person, and occasionally a tall man.
  2. North German: metonymic occupational name for a hat maker, from Middle Low German hot ‘hat’.
  3. German (southern and central) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a dealer in skins, from Middle High German hut, hout, German Haut ‘skin’, ‘hide’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of haut Families in the US in 1920
Number of haut families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
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