English (northern borders) and Scottish: probably a variant of
Hoggard, but perhaps, as Black suggests, a habitational name
from a lost or unidentified place named with the dialect word
hoggarth ‘lamb enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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