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. 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.

Hugo is one of the most popular given names in Europe, ranking as high as #8 in Belgium in 2006. 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 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 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