Hugh

Etymology
From the aristocratic and saint's name, brought to England by Normans, from a short form of  names beginning with , such as Hubert. Cognate with 🇨🇬. More at high, how.

Usage notes

 * Has been used as a transliteration of, and of other Gaelic names, in Scotland and Ireland.
 * Popular given name in medieval England, partly due to the fame of Saint Hugh, bishop of Lincoln. In quiet use today, more common in the U.K. and Ireland than in the U.S.A.

Related terms

 * pet forms: Huey, Hughie
 * variant: Hugo

Translations

 * Armenian: Հուգո
 * Bengali: হিউ
 * Catalan: Hug
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Hugo
 * Esperanto: Hugo
 * Finnish: Huugo
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჰიუ, ჰიუგო
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Aodh
 * Italian:
 * Latin: Hugo
 * Latvian: Uģis
 * Manx: Eashdyn
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: Uc, Ugues
 * Persian: هوگو
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: Hugo
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: Huw

Derived terms

 * Hughie, Shug, Shuggie, Hyug, Hughock