English Explanatory Dictionary

Hogben

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Middle English.

Word forms

Hogben Hogbens

Etymology

From Middle English huckbone (“hip bone”), a nickname for someone with a deformed hip who probably walked crookedly.Alternatively, a Viking name based on the norse for "high village" ie "hogbyn", which is the earliest recorded spelling of the name. Interestingly, there is a village in Kent called Hogben's Hill".

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