Hugo (name)

Hugo

French Romantic writer Victor Hugo
Pronunciation	English: /ˈhjuːɡoʊ/ HEW-goh French: [yɡo] ⓘ Spanish: [ˈuɣo] German: [ˈhuːɡoː] ⓘ Dutch: [ˈɦyɣoː] ⓘ Finnish: [ˈhuɡo]
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 ]}

Notable people

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 Ärnfast (1908–1965), Swedish diplomat
• 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
• Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948), German fashion designer
• 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 Calderano (born 1996), Brazilian table tennis player
• 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 Fernández Artucio (born c. 1910s), Uruguayan academic and activist
• Hugo Fernández Faingold (fl. c. 2000), Uruguayan politician
• Hugo Ferreira de Farias (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
• 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 González (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), Dutch forefather of international law theory
• Hugo Hamilton (disambiguation), multiple 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 Keto (born 1998), Finnish footballer
• 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 Leonardo (born 2004), Brazilian footballer
• 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 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 Paul Friedrich Schulz (1853–1932), Prussian pharmacist
• 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 Toivonen (born 2004), Finnish footballer
• 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 Lefèvre, another person who died & is living versions of his life if me made different decisions from The Midnight Library
• 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

1. fr:Albert Dauzat, Les noms et prénoms de France, éditions Larousse, 1980, foreword by fr:Marie-Thérèse Morlet. p. 333.
2. "Kratka imena koja nisu u top 50, a imaju posebno značenje". www.index.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2024-09-22.
3. Archived October 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine