Last Name HOUGH

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Meaning	Local: Of the hough. The same word as 'haugh' or 'how,' a hill, a mound. There is a hamlet called Hough-end in the parish of Bramley, near Leads. Houfe is a curious corruption. Of the Cheshir and South Lancashire Houghs nearly all hail from Hough, now called 'the hough,' a portion of the parish of Wilmslow, coounty Cheshire. Local: A place so named in the county of Lincoln, England. Saxon and Dutch, 'Hoch,' 'Hoog,' and 'How,' high.

Origin	English, Irish, South african

Rank	2,208 (2000 US census)	2,002 (1990 US census)

Count	15,090 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

85.73%, or 12937 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
10.21%, or 1541 total occurrences, as black,
0.72%, or 109 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.66%, or 100 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.23%, or 186 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.44%, or 217 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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