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Girl · Germanic, through Old French
Huguette
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Meaning
Feminine diminutive of Hugues, from Germanic hug 'mind, heart'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Found in medieval records and fashionable again in France in the 1920s–40s; very rare today.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 22 babies given this name since 1934
- At its height in 1934, about 1 in 174,000 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
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Where this comes from
- The Paris tax rolls of the 1290s
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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