What does my last name mean and where does it come from its Hughes and plz asap?

Question:When you look at Ancestry.Com and see the place of origin given by immigrants to the U.S., this is what they gave

England 4659

Ireland 3918

Great Britain 1048

Wales 720

Scotland 304

Germany 53

It states it is English and Welsh a patronymic from the Middle English and Anglo Norman personal name Hugh

Welsh variant of Howells

Irish and Scottish variant and Anglicization of the Gaelic MacAndha (see McCoy)

The same surname very frequently can come from more than one national origin and not everyone with the same surname are not necessary related, even those of the same national origin. See the link below from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S, The National Genealogical Society.

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

Rootsweb(free site) has over 368,000 entries for Hughes in family trees submitted. Just pull up the site and put Hughes or a complete name in the World Connect block. If you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Just don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters, that is no guarantee it is correct.
A lot of people copy without verifying.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: When you look at Ancestry.Com and see the place of origin given by immigrants to the U.S., this is what they gave

England 4659

Ireland 3918

Great Britain 1048

Wales 720

Scotland 304

Germany 53

It states it is English and Welsh a patronymic from the Middle English and Anglo Norman personal name Hugh

Welsh variant of Howells

Irish and Scottish variant and Anglicization of the Gaelic MacAndha (see McCoy)

The same surname very frequently can come from more than one national origin and not everyone with the same surname are not necessary related, even those of the same national origin. See the link below from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S, The National Genealogical Society.

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

Rootsweb(free site) has over 368,000 entries for Hughes in family trees submitted. Just pull up the site and put Hughes or a complete name in the World Connect block. If you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Just don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters, that is no guarantee it is correct.
A lot of people copy without verifying.

i thinks its german dont know what it means

It's probably Welsh, have a look at this for the history of it:
http://www.data-wales.co.uk/hughes.htm

Do a family tree or ask a relative.
With a family tree you can trace all the way back before you
was born .(Good Luck)

Hughes is found in England and Wales, and comes from the Christian name Hugh.

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name
Hughes
English (also common in Wales): patronymic from the Middle English and Anglo-Norman French personal name Hugh.
Welsh: variant of Howells.
Irish and Scottish: variant Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Aodha (see McCoy).
hope this helps.

There are essentially four types of surnames:

i) Those taking -- or based on -- the first name of the ancestor's father (patronymic). eg. "Robertson" (son of Robert), "Sims" (son of Simon)

ii) Those recording localities or places where ancestors originated. eg. any name beginning with the prefix "Nor-" means North, someone from the North part of the village or country.

iii) Names reflecting the occupation or status of the ancestor. eg. "Smith", "Taylor", "Slater"

iv) Surnames that are nicknames describing the ancestor's face, figure, temper, morals, or habits.

Although some names are very exclusive to small geographic areas, patronymic ones are not. Many people researching the name "Robertson" for example would like you to believe that they are Scottish and that everyone with this name is descended from the same man who lived in a small villgage in Perthshire 500 years ago. This is clearly rubbish. The most a person with this name can deduce is that at some point in the past he had an ancestor named "Robert". As for where he lived or came from originally, it could be anywhere. Surnames didn't become fixed until quite late in the 13th and 14th centuries and in some places later than this. A lot of names began with the name of a mans father so "John Williamson" was "John son of William", but instead of his offspring being "George Johnson" (son of John), one day they just used 'Williamson' instead and the name stuck. Hughes is such a name and would indicate a "son of Hugh". It's popular in Wales, but also across the UK as a whole and doesn't really "come" from anywhere specific, like some names.

My own surname is one such example, and is quite rare in genealogy circles. No matter where they are living now (Australia, America, UK), most bearers of my surname end up searching in Cheshire, as my surname is one of those based on a place-name and is very popular in North West England, but almost unheard of anywhere else. It's therefore that little bit easier for me to say that almost everybody with my surname is probably a relative and that we probably did all march out of a village in Cheshire in the 1500s and spread our seed all across the world (!). With other family names based on occupations or fathers names, it is much harder to make the connection of where it originated, as there are many many possibilities. Names like Smith and Taylor are common across all of the UK and the likelihood of two random people named Smith being related to each other is quite remote.

Hughes to Hugh to hug in German. means 'heart, mind, or spirit'