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“high, chosen” + “son, descendant, kin”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Hacon is a masculine given name documented in Old English. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Hákon. It is a form of Hákon, for which English Wikipedia gives the components “high, chosen” + “son, descendant, kin”.
Meaning: “high, chosen” + “son, descendant, kin”
From Old Norse Hákon. Cognate with Norwegian Håkon.
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Hacon— “high kin”
But there has been a confusion between this Hagan, or Hogni, and Haagan, properly Haakvin, from _haa_, high, and _kyn_, meaning of high kin, the well-known Norwegian and Danish name of many a fierce viking; sometimes Latinized as Haquinus, Frenchified as Haquin, and called in the North Haaken, or Hakon. Domesday has it as Kaco, Hacon, Hacun, and Hakena; and Hacon still lingers among the fishermen of the Orkneys. Other northern names, with the same opening, _haa_ (pronounced…
But there has been a confusion between this Hagan, or Hogni, and Haagan, properly Haakvin, from _haa_, high, and _kyn_, meaning of high kin, the well-known Norwegian and Danish name of many a fierce viking; sometimes Latinized as Haquinus, Frenchified as Haquin, and called in the North Haaken, or Hakon. Domesday has it as Kaco, Hacon, Hacun, and Hakena; and Hacon still lingers among the fishermen of the Orkneys. Other northern names, with the same opening, _haa_ (pronounced _ho_), are Haamund, no doubt the parent of our Hammond, and Haavard, whence our Hayward, both alike meaning high protection.[133]
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter IV (Heroic Names Of The Nibelung), Section V (Hagen) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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