Hugo (name)
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| File:Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full.jpg French Romantic writer Victor Hugo | |
| Pronunciation | English: /ˈhjuːɡoʊ/ HEW-goh French: [yɡo] Spanish: [ˈuɣo] German: [ˈhuːɡoː] Dutch: [ˈɦyɣoː] Finnish: [ˈhuɡo] |
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| Gender | Male |
| Language(s) | Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, English, Finnish |
| Name day | Czech Republic: April 1 Germany: April 29 Estonia: February 3 Croatia: April 29, October 8 & November 26 Latvia: November 17 Poland: April 1, April 29 & November 17 Slovakia: April 1 Sweden: November 3 Finland: February 3 |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | 'Mind', 'spirit' |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Hugh, Hugues, Ugo, Hauke, Huw |
Hugo is a surname and a masculine given name.[1] The English version of the name is Hugh, the Italian version is Ugo. For detailed history and etymology of the name, see Hugh (given name). The name Hugo is actually a short form of old names like Hugbert and Hugbald. The name is derived from the old Germanic *hugu, meaning 'sense, mind, thought', and *huggen, meaning 'to think'. In other words, Hugo means thinker or clever.[2] Hugo is one of the most popular given names in Europe, ranking as high as #8 in Belgium in 2006.[3][citation needed] April 1 is the name day of Hugo in many European countries.
Notable people
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Surname
- Adèle Hugo (1830–1915), French diarist
- Chad Hugo (born 1974), American musician and record producer
- Charles Hugo (disambiguation), several people
- Francis Hugo (1870–1930), American politician
- François-Victor Hugo (1828–1873), French writer and translator
- Graeme Hugo (1946–2015), Australian demographer
- Gustav Hugo (1764–1844), German jurist
- Jean Hugo (1894–1984), French painter, illustrator, theatre designer and author
- Jean Hugo (golfer) (born 1975), South African golfer
- Jeanne Hugo (1869–1941), French socialite
- Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo, French general and the father of Victor Hugo
- Julie Hugo (1797–1865), French painter
- Léopoldine Hugo (1824–1843), French socialite
- Ludwig Maria Hugo (1871–1935), German Roman Catholic bishop in Mainz
- Petrus Hugo (1917–1986), South African fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force during World War II
- Pieter Hugo (born 1976), South African photographer
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French writer, statesman and human rights activist
- Victor Hugo (cricketer) (1877–1930), Australian cricketer
- Walter Hugo, British artist
Given name
- Hugo, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg (died 1444), German noble
- Hugh of Ostia (died 1158), French religious leader
- Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960), Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter
- Hugo Almeida (born 1984), Portuguese footballer
- Hugo Alves Velame (born 1974), Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Ball (1886–1927), German author, poet, founder of the Dada movement and the Cabaret Voltaire
- Hugo Barra, Brazilian computer scientist
- Hugo Black (1886–1971), US Supreme Court Justice
- Hugo Black Jr. (1922–2013), American lawyer
- Hugo Black III (1953–2007), American lawyer
- Prince Hugo de Bourbon de Parme (born 1997), member of the Dutch royal family
- Hugo Burge (1972–2023), British business executive and entrepreneur
- Hugo Burnand, British photographer
- Hugo Cabral (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Cancio (born 1964), Cuban-born American businessman and political activist
- Hugo Chakrabongse (born 1981), Thai royal and singer-songwriter
- Hugo Chávez (1954–2013), politician, President of Venezuela
- Hugo Corro (1953–2007), Argentinian boxer
- Hugo Cumbo (born 1996), judoka from Vanuatu
- Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), German airship commander
- Hugo Ferreira de Farias (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948), German fashion designer
- Hugo Fernández Artucio (born c. 1910s), Uruguayan academic and activist
- Hugo Fernández Faingold (fl. c. 2000), Uruguayan politician
- Hugo Gadd (1885–1968), Swedish Army major general
- Hugo Gellert (1892–1985), Hungarian-born artist
- Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967), American science-fiction publisher
- Hugo van der Goes (1430?–1482) Flemish painter
- Hugo Gonçalves Ferreira Neto (born 2001), Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), Dutch forefather of international law theory
- Hugo Hamilton (disambiguation), various people
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Austrian writer
- Hugo Houle (born 1990), Canadian cyclist
- Hugo Junkers (1859–1935), German aircraft designer
- Hugo von Kayser (1873–1949), German general
- Hugo Koblet (1925–1964), Swiss champion cyclist
- Hugo Kołłątaj (1750–1812), Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist
- Hugo de Lantins (fl. 1420–1430), French-Flemish composer
- Hugo Launicke (1909–1975), German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime
- Hugo Laur (1893–1977), Estonian actor
- Hugo Leclercq (born 1994), French record producer and musician
- Hugo Leistner (1902–2002), American hurdler
- Hugo Lloris (born 1986), French goalkeeper, plays for Tottenham and France national team
- Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009), Swiss writer
- Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez (born 1969), Mexican epidemiologist
- Hugo Henrique Assis do Nascimento (born 1980), Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Nys (born 1991), French tennis player
- Hugo Ott (1931–2022), German historian and academic
- Hugo Pärtelpoeg (1899–1951), Estonian lawyer and politician
- Hugo Passos (born 1979), amateur Portuguese Greco-Roman wrestler
- Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz (1853–1932), Prussian pharmacist
- Hugo Pratt (1927–1995), Italian comic book creator
- Hugo Reid (1809–1852), Scottish rancher and ethnographer
- Hugo Relander (1865–1947), Finnish mathematician and politician
- Hugo Rifkind (born 1977), Scottish journalist
- Hugo Robus (1885–1964), American sculptor
- Hugo Rodallega (born 1985), Colombian footballer
- Hugo Salmela (1884–1918), Finnish military leader of the Red Guards in the 1918 Civil War
- Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born 1958), Mexican footballer
- Hugo Schmeisser (1884–1953), German weapons designer
- Hugo Schwyzer, American professor and writer
- Hugo Sofovich (1939–2003), Argentine filmmaker
- Hugo Souza (born 1999), Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Sperrle (1885–1953), German field marshal
- Hugo Theorell (1903–1982), Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine
- Hugo Toom (born 2002), Estonian basketball player
- Hugo Treffner (1845–1912), Estonian educator and figure in the Estonian national awakening
- Hugo Vázquez (born 1968), Uruguayan basketball player
- Hugo Veloso Oliveira Silva (born 1984), Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Viana (born 1982), Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Hugo Viana (born 1983), Portuguese footballer
- Hugo Vieira (born 1988), Portuguese footballer
- Hugo Miguel Fernandes Vieira (born 1976), Portuguese footballer
- Hugo Weaving (born 1960), British actor
- Hugo White (1939–2014), Royal Navy officer and Governor of Gibraltar
- Hugo Young (1938–2003), British journalist
Fictional Characters
- Abbot Hugo, a supporting character from Shin Megami Tensei IV.
- Hugo, a character from the Street Fighter III and Final Fight fighting game series
- Hugo, a character from the role-playing video game Suikoden III
- Hugo, a character from the French role-playing video game Off
- Hugo, the younger brother of Amicia de Rune from the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence
- Hugo, the protagonist from Hugo's House of Horrors, Whodunit?, and Jungle of Doom
- Hugo, a troll character and protagonist from the Hugo franchise
- Hugo, younger brother of Victor in Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime and 2nd in command of their criminals for hire business.
- Hugo, one of the gargoyles from the 1996 Disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Hugo, a deputy in training supporting character from the 2016 musical adaptation of Tuck Everlasting
- Hugo DeAngelis, a character in television series The Sopranos. Father in law to series protagonist Tony Soprano and father of his wife Carmela
- Hugo Baskerville, a character in Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.
- Hugo Cabret, the protagonist of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and its film adaptation, Hugo
- Hugo Danner, the protagonist in Philip Wylie's 1930 novel Gladiator"
- Jungledyret Hugo, the main character of the Danish children's film series and a TV show of the same name
- Hugo Granger-Weasley, the son of Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- Hugo Drax, villain in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Moonraker
- Hugo Habercore, the health inspector and secondary antagonist of Bob's Burgers
- Hugo Horton, character from the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley
- Hugo Rask, one of the two main characters of the Swedish award-winning fiction Wilful Disregard
- Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, a main character in the television show Lost
- Hugo Simpson, Bart Simpson's twin brother from The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror VII".
- Hugo the Abominable Snowman, a minor enemy of Bugs Bunny, loosely based on the yeti legend
- Hugo Strange, a DC Comics supervillain, notably being one of Batman's biggest adversaries
References
- ↑ fr:Albert Dauzat, Les noms et prénoms de France, éditions Larousse, 1980, foreword by fr:Marie-Thérèse Morlet. p. 333.
- ↑ "Kratka imena koja nisu u top 50, a imaju posebno značenje". www.index.hr (in hrvatski). Retrieved 2024-09-22.
- ↑ [1] [dead link] Archived October 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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