Origin and popularity of the name HUCK

Origin

Huck : 1: English: from the Middle English personal name Hucke or Hugge. Some examples (especially in northern England) may represent Old English (H)ucca a pet form of Ūhtrǣd. By the late 13th century however this personal name had probably fallen out of use and Hukke and Hug(ge) will usually have been variant pronunciations of Hugh or its pet forms Hukin and Hugin. See Hugh and Huggins and compare Higson.2: English: variant of Hook.3: German (also Hück): topographic name from a term meaning ‘bog’ also ‘corner’ or a habitational name from Huck in North Rhine-Westphalia. Compare Hux.4: German (also Hück): from a pet form of the personal name Hugo.5: Germanized form of Sorbian Hujk: nickname from a pet form of Lower Sorbian huj ‘uncle’ (see Huy).

Hobbins : English: from a variant of the Middle English personal name Hobin a rhyming form of Robin + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In Kent the name may also be a shortened form of Hogben a nickname from Middle English huck-bone ‘hip bone haunch bone’. The origin of huck is obscure but it is probably from an ancient Germanic root huk- ‘to be bent’ and cognate with Old Norse huka ‘to crouch sit bent sit on the haunches’ and huck-backed ‘hump-backed hunched’. Compare Hobbs.

Hucke : 1: German: topographic name from huck a dialect word meaning ‘bog’.2: German: variant of Huck 3 and 4.3: Germanized form of Sorbian Hujk (see Huck 5).4: English (Lancashire): variant of Huck.

Huckfeldt : German: topographic name from a dialect word huck ‘bog’ + feld ‘open country field’.

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