Hugh meaning

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Hugh is defined as a common male name originally from Germany.

An example of Hugh is the English actor with the last name Grant who played opposite Andie MacDowell in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.

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A masculine name: var. Hugo.
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A male given name.
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(rare compared to given name) A patronymic surname​.
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Origin of hugh

From the Old French aristocratic and saint's name Hughe, brought to England by Normans, from a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element hug (“heart, mind”), such as Hubert.

Sentence Examples

  • The second is Hugh IV.

  • By far the most illuminating collection is that of Hugh Elliott, Letters of John Stuart Mill (2 vols., 1910), which contains letters to John Sterling, Carlyle, E.

  • HUGH CURWEN (d.

  • Near, too, is a rock named "Hugh Lloyd's pulpit" (Lloyd lived in the time of Charles I., Cromwell and Charles II.).

  • The original significance of the name remains in dispute, but the first of the family to whom it was applied was Hugh, who was elected king of the Franks in 987.

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