Hughes Family History
Hughes Name Meaning
English (also common in Wales): patronymic from the Middle
English and Anglo-Norman French personal name Hugh.Welsh:
variant of Howells.Irish and Scottish: variant
Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Aodha (see McCoy).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hughes Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hughes families
 1,574 - 3,145  525 - 1,573 |
 1 - 524  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hughes families
|
6,761 - 13,519 2,254 - 6,760 |
1 - 2,253 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hughes families
|
962 - 1,921 321 - 961 |
1 - 320 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hughes Family Origin
Hughes Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Hughes
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Hughes Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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