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Boy · Germanic, with Middle English pet form
Hodge
Say it: HOJ
Meaning
A medieval English pet form of Roger.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
So common among country people that Hodge became the stock name for a farm labourer.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 68 babies given this name since 1915
- At its height in 1915, about 1 in 106,100 boys
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Hogge
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Where this comes from
- English poll taxes and lay subsidy rolls (13th and 14th centuries)
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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