Given name & surname
How
“one who is lofty”
How is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “one who is lofty.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “one who is lofty.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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