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The hoo Surname

hoo Name Meaning and History

  1. English (East Anglia and the south): topographic name for someone who lived on a spur of a hill, from the Old English dative case hoe (originally used after a preposition) of hoh ‘spur of a hill’. The surname may also derive from any of the minor places named with this word, such as Hoo in Kent and Hooe in Devon and Sussex.
  2. Chinese : see Hu.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the hoo family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of hoo Families in the US in 1920
Number of hoo families
 26-49
 9-25		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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