Want does the last name pugh mean?

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Want does the last name pugh mean?

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This name is of medieval Welsh origin, and is a Welsh patronymic
form of the personal name "Hugh", originally written as "ap Hugh",
as in the first recording below, where "ap" means "son of", and
over the years has been reduced and contracted to form "Pugh", with
the variants "Pughe" or "Pew". The male personal name "Hugh" was
introduced into Britain by the Normans in the form of "Hu(gh)e",
after the Conquest of 1066. In origin "Hugh" is a short form of any
of the various Germanic compound names with the first element
"hug", heart, mind, spirit, such as "Howard", or "Hubert". The
variant "Pew" derives from the form "Hew". One John Apew is
recorded in the "Peacock's Army list of Roundheads and Cavaliers"
of 1642. William Pugh and Martha Whiting were married at St.
James's, Dukes Place, London, on the May 22nd 1688. Ellis Pugh
(1656 - 1721) emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1686, where he published
the first Welsh book printed in America in 1721.

A Coat of Arms was granted to a Pugh family resident at
Wanerchydol, Co. Montgomery, depicting quarterly first and fourth,
silver a black lion passant with a gold crown, between three red
fleurs-de-lis; second and third, black, with three silver
greyhounds. The Motto, "Qui invidet minor est", translates as, "He
who envies is inferior". The first recorded spelling of the family
name is shown to be that of
Richard ap Hughe, which was dated
1563, in the "Ancient Deeds of Montgomery", during the reign of
Queen Elizabeth 1, known as "Good Queen Bess", 1558 - 1603.