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HOPE : Derived from Middle English hop "small valley".

HOPKINS : Patronymic formed from a diminutive of HOB.

HOPPER : Referred to a person who hopped. The name was given to professional acrobats or gymnasts at a fair. It may also have been given to those who were nerv...

HOPSON : Variant of HOBSON.

HORACEK : Variant of HORAČEK.

HORAK : Derived from Czech hora "mountain", a cognate of the Polish GÓRSKI.

HORAČEK : Diminutive derived from Czech hora "mountain".

HORN (1) : Occupational name for one who carved objects out of horn or who played a horn.

HORN (2) : Originally given to a person who lived near a horned-shaped geographical feature, such as a mountain or a bend in a river.

HORNE : Variant of HORN (1).

HORNICK : Variant of HORNIK.

HORNIK : Occupational name meaning "miner".

HOROWITZ : From the German name for Horovice, a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

HORSFALL : Derived from a place in Yorkshire meaning "horse clearing".

HORTON : From the name of a town in Yorkshire meaning "mud town".

HORVAT : Means "Croatian" in the Slavic languages.

HORVATINČIĆ : Patronymic derived from HORVAT.

HORVÁTH : From horvát meaning "Croat, person from Croatia" in Hungarian. The Croats and Hungarians have always had narrow and conflictive relations.

HOU : From Chinese 侯 (hóu) meaning "lord, nobleman".

HOUBEN : Derived from the given name Hubertus (see HUBERT).

HOUK : Derived from the medieval German region of Huc, located in northeastern Germany.

HOUSE : Referred to a person who lived in a house, as opposed to a smaller hut.

HOUSTON : Means "HUGH's town". The original Houston is in Scotland near Glasgow.

HOUTKOOPER : Means "buyer of wood" in Dutch.

HOUTMAN : Means "forest man" from Dutch hout "forest", so it is very likely that the first bearer of this surname was a man who lived in the forest.

HOVANESIAN : Means "son of HOVHANNES" in Armenian.

HOWARD (1) : Derived from the given name HUGHARD or HÁVARÐR.

HOWARD (2) : Derived from ewehirde meaning "ewe herder".

HOWE : Name for one who lived on a hill, from Middle English how "hill".

HOWELL : Derived from the Welsh given name HYWEL.