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sorry ur right too
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Hugo is also a 'common' name in Sweden, yesi searched at google.com for Hugosson (meaning would be 'son of Hugo) and i find quite some resultsthis means Hugo is used for long time there, cause there are surnames containing it (meaning it existed in Sweden back time when surnames come into life)
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About Hugosson......I've never heard that! :) It must be a very unusual surname. The son-names didn't become common until the end of the 19th century (dotter-names ie "daughter" are very rare today), I think, but the name "Hugi" was used in Old Norse.
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