Hugo (name)

Hugo is a surname and a masculine given name.[1] The English version of the name is Hugh, the Italian version is Ugo or Hugo. For detailed history and etymology of the name, see Hugh (given name).

Hugo
Pronunciation/ˈhjuːɡoʊ/ HEW-goh
French: [yɡo]
Spanish: [ˈuɣo]
German: [ˈhuːɡoː]
Dutch: [ˈɦʏˌɣo]
Finnish: [ˈhuɡo]
GenderMale
Language(s)Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, English, Finnish
Name dayCzech 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
MeaningMind, spirit
Region of originItaly
Other names
Related namesHugh, Hugues, Ugo, Hauke, Huw

Hugo is one of the most popular given names in Europe, ranking as high as #8 in Belgium in 2006.[2] April 1 is the name day of Hugo in many European countries.

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 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
  • 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 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 Ferreira de Farias (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
  • Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948), German fashion designer
  • Hugo Fernández Artucio (born c. 1910s), Uruguayan academic and activist
  • Hugo Fernández Faingold (fl. c. 2000), Uruguayan politician
  • 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 Grotius (1583–1645), Dutch forefather of international law theory
  • Hugo Hamilton (disambiguation), various 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 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 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 Paul Friedrich Schulz (1853–1932), Prussian pharmacist
  • 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 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 Toom (born 2002), Estonian basketball player
  • Hugo Treffner (1845–1912), Estonian educator and figure in the Estonian national awakening
  • 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 1976), 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 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. Archived October 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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