Hugo (name)
Hugo is a first name and surname.
Origin and Meaning
The name is of Germanic origin, based on the old Germanic male personal name * hug-, derived from the Germanic strong masculine * xuʒiz, xuʒuz hugi = -z for mind, thinking mind. Comparisons Dutch: geheugen = memory. See also Hubert or Old High German Hugbert.
Variants
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With this name, including the following names are related:
Family name
Name-day
The feast is on 28 April, the date of death of Hugh of Cluny, and in Austria on 1 April, the anniversary of the death of St. Hugh of Grenoble.
Well-known bearers of the name
For rulers and ministers see List of rulers named Hugo.
- Hugo Metellus (ca. 1080 -ca. 1150 ), Augustinian Canons in Toul, master, poet and letter - writer
- Hugo Lange Stein ( attested 1271-1298 ), Middle High German poet
- Hugo Junkers (1859-1935), German engineer and entrepreneur
- Türpe Hugo (1859-1891), German musician
- Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Austrian- Slovenian composer
- Eckener (1868-1954), German Zeppelin airship
- Hugo Stinnes (1870-1924), German industrialist
- Hugo Simberg (1873-1917), Finnish painter and graphic artist
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Austrian writer
- Süchting Hugo (1874-1916), German chess player
- Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967), American publisher and science fiction author
- Hugo Hirsch (1884-1961), German operetta composer and pop
- Hugo Gieseking (1887-1915), German mathematician
- Hugo Urbahns (1890-1946), German politician
- Hugo Butler (1914-1968), Canadian Writer
- Hugo Imfeld (1916-1993), Swiss sculptor, relief artist, printmaker and draftsman
- Hugo Strasser (* 1922), German clarinetist and bandleader
- Hugo Loetscher (1929-2009), Swiss writer
- Hugo Claus (1929-2008), Flemish writer
- Dudli Hugo (1930-2004), Swiss composer
- Hugo Dittberner (* 1944), German writer
- Hugo Egon Balder (* 1950), German television presenter
- Hugo Hamilton ( born 1953 ), Irish writer
- Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), Venezuelan President
- Hugo Weaving ( born 1960 ), Australian actor
- Hugo Campagnaro ( born 1980 ), Argentine footballer
- Hugo Almeida ( born 1984 ), Portuguese footballer
- Hugo Lloris ( born 1986 ), French football goalkeeper