Hee Family History
Hee Name Meaning
Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in the county of Hedmark named He from Old Norse hæth ‘hill mound’. Danish: habitational name from any of several places so named from a word meaning ‘shining clear’ with reference to a river.7: German: habitational name from a place named Hee. It is found mainly in the northwestern part of Bavaria.8: French: unexplained. It is found mainly in Orne and Eure-et-Loir.9: Perhaps also an American shortened form of Dutch and Flemish Van Hee . Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 徐. Also a variant Romanization of the surname 許 based on its Hakka or Hokkien pronunciation. See Xu 1 and Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 夏 see Xia . Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 奚 see Xi Chinese: possibly from a Cantonese form of the Chinese personal names 喜 希 羲 熙 曦 熹 or 晞 which were monosyllabic personal names or part of disyllabic personal names of some early Chinese immigrants in the US.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022