English: habitational name from places in Lancashire and
Northumberland. The former is named from Old English hoh
‘spur of a hill’ or hoc ‘hook’ + wic ‘outlying
farm’; the latter probably originally had as its first element Old
English heah ‘high’, but was later influenced by
hoh.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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