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The howe Surname

howe Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill or a man-made mound or barrow, Middle English how (Old Norse haugr), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Howe in Norfolk and North Yorkshire.
  2. English: variant of Hugh.
  3. Jewish (American): Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
  4. Americanized form of Norwegian Hove.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The howe name in History

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Distribution of howe Families in the US in 1920
Number of howe families
 507-1011
 170-506		 1-169
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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