Hugo (name)

Hugo is a surname and a masculine given name of German origin. The English version of the name is Hugh, the Italian version is Ugo.

The name Hugo is actually a short form of old names like Hugbert and Hugbald. The name is derived from Old High German hugu, meaning 'sense, mind, thought', and hugōn, 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.[citation needed]

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
Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960), Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter
Hugo Almeida (born 1984), Portuguese footballer
Hugo Alves Velame (born 1974), Brazilian footballer
Hugo Ärnfast (1908–1965), Swedish diplomat
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
Hugo Bonemer (born 1987), Brazilian actor, presenter and musician
Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948), German fashion designer
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 Calderano (born 1996), Brazilian table tennis player
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 Dittberner (born 1944), German writer
Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), German airship commander
Hugo Fernández Artucio (born c. 1910s), Uruguayan academic and activist
Hugo Fernández Faingold (fl. c. 2000), Uruguayan politician
Hugo Ferreira de Farias (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
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 González (disambiguation), multiple people
Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), Dutch forefather of international law theory
Hugo Hamilton (disambiguation), multiple 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 Keto (born 1998), Finnish footballer
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 Leonardo (born 2004), Brazilian footballer
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 Motta (born 1989), Brazilian physician and politician
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 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 Paul Friedrich Schulz (1853–1932), Prussian pharmacist
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 Toivonen (born 2004), Finnish footballer
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 Lefèvre, another person who died & is living versions of his life if me made different decisions from The Midnight Library
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
Hugo Stiglitz, a Wehrmacht Sergeant turned basterd in Inglourious Basterds
Hugo, a character from a rejected Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure spin-off called "Varian and the Seven Kingdoms". He is a cunning thief who pretends to befriend the other protagonists, but later realizes that he cares about them.
Hugo Vlad Ravenlock, a playable character and leader of the phantom thief faction "Mockingbird" in Zenless Zone Zero