Hoen Family History
- Hoen Name Meaning
- Dutch and German: nickname from hoen ‘chicken’, ‘hen’, perhaps denoting a silly person. Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Huno (from hun ‘bear cub’). German: variant of Höhn (see Hoehn). Norwegian: habitational name from either of two farmsteads named Hon, from Old Norse hundr ‘dog’, or from Hóvin, a compound of hór ‘high’ + vin ‘meadow’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 60,571 Historical Documents with Hoen on Ancestry
- 33,261 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,564 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,387 Military Records
- 1,848 Immigration Records
- 18,511 Member Trees
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Number of Hoen families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hoen families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hoen census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hoen census records
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- All Hoen
- 13
- Confederate
- 4
- Union
- 9
from the Civil War Service Records
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