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.
Notable people
Surname
- Adèle Hugo, French diarist
- Chad Hugo, American musician and record producer
- Charles Hugo (disambiguation), several people
- Francis Hugo, American politician
- François-Victor Hugo, French writer and translator
- Graeme Hugo, Australian demographer
- Gustav Hugo, German jurist
- Jean Hugo, French painter, illustrator, theatre designer and author
- Jean Hugo (golfer), South African golfer
- Jeanne Hugo, French socialite
- Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo, French general and the father of Victor Hugo
- Julie Hugo, French painter
- Léopoldine Hugo, French socialite
- Ludwig Maria Hugo, German Roman Catholic bishop in Mainz
- Petrus Hugo, South African fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force during World War II
- Pieter Hugo, South African photographer
- Victor Hugo, French writer, statesman and human rights activist
- Victor Hugo (cricketer), Australian cricketer
- Walter Hugo, British artist
Given name
- Hugo, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg, German noble
- Hugh of Ostia (died 1158), French religious leader
- Hugo Alfvén, Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter
- Hugo Almeida, Portuguese footballer
- Hugo Alves Velame, Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Ärnfast, Swedish diplomat
- Hugo Ball, German author, poet, founder of the Dada movement and the Cabaret Voltaire
- Hugo Barra, Brazilian computer scientist
- Hugo Black, US Supreme Court Justice
- Hugo Black Jr., American lawyer
- Hugo Black III, American lawyer
- Hugo Bonemer, Brazilian actor, presenter and musician
- Hugo Ferdinand Boss, German fashion designer
- Prince Hugo de Bourbon de Parme, member of the Dutch royal family
- Hugo Burge, British business executive and entrepreneur
- Hugo Burnand, British photographer
- Hugo Cabral, Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Calderano, Brazilian table tennis player
- Hugo Cancio, Cuban-born American businessman and political activist
- Hugo Chakrabongse, Thai royal and singer-songwriter
- Hugo Chávez, politician, President of Venezuela
- Hugo Corro, Argentinian boxer
- Hugo Cumbo, judoka from Vanuatu
- Hugo Dittberner, German writer
- Hugo Eckener, German airship commander
- Hugo Fernández Artucio, Uruguayan academic and activist
- Hugo Fernández Faingold, Uruguayan politician
- Hugo Ferreira de Farias, Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Gadd, Swedish Army major general
- Hugo Gellert, Hungarian-born artist
- Hugo Gernsback, American science-fiction publisher
- Hugo van der Goes Flemish painter
- Hugo Gonçalves Ferreira Neto, Brazilian footballer
- Hugo González (disambiguation), multiple people
- Hugo Grotius, Dutch forefather of international law theory
- Hugo Hamilton (disambiguation), multiple people
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer
- Hugo Houle, Canadian cyclist
- Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer
- Hugo von Kayser, German general
- Hugo Keto, Finnish footballer
- Hugo Koblet, Swiss champion cyclist
- Hugo Kołłątaj, Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist
- Hugo de Lantins, French-Flemish composer
- Hugo Launicke, German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime
- Hugo Laur, Estonian actor
- Hugo Leclercq, French record producer and musician
- Hugo Leistner, American hurdler
- Hugo Leonardo, Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Lloris, French goalkeeper, plays for Tottenham and France national team
- Hugo Loetscher, Swiss writer
- Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Mexican epidemiologist
- Hugo Motta, Brazilian physician and politician
- Hugo Henrique Assis do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Nys, French tennis player
- Hugo Ott, German historian and academic
- Hugo Pärtelpoeg, Estonian lawyer and politician
- Hugo Passos, amateur Portuguese Greco-Roman wrestler
- Hugo Pratt, Italian comic book creator
- Hugo Reid, Scottish rancher and ethnographer
- Hugo Relander, Finnish mathematician and politician
- Hugo Rifkind, Scottish journalist
- Hugo Robus, American sculptor
- Hugo Rodallega, Colombian footballer
- Hugo Salmela, Finnish military leader of the Red Guards in the 1918 Civil War
- Hugo Sánchez Márquez, Mexican footballer
- Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer
- Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz, Prussian pharmacist
- Hugo Schwyzer, American professor and writer
- Hugo Sofovich, Argentine filmmaker
- Hugo Souza, Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal
- Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine
- Hugo Toivonen, Finnish footballer
- Hugo Toom, Estonian basketball player
- Hugo Treffner, Estonian educator and figure in the Estonian national awakening
- Hugo Vázquez, Uruguayan basketball player
- Hugo Veloso Oliveira Silva, Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Viana, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Hugo Viana, Portuguese footballer
- Hugo Vieira, Portuguese footballer
- Hugo Miguel Fernandes Vieira, Portuguese footballer
- Hugo Weaving, British actor
- Hugo White, Royal Navy officer and Governor of Gibraltar
- Hugo Young, 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''