Hugo

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.

Proper noun

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.
    • He had liked a girl named Sandra in seventh grade. "Where did you get the name Hugo?" she had asked him once. "It sounds like a made-up name. What's your real name, Hugo? Or are you a Russian spy?" - 1986, Kitty Burns...
  2. A surname from French.
  3. A statutory town, the county seat of Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.
  4. A city, the county seat of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named after Victor Hugo.

Origin

From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).

Derived

Hugoton

Noun

  1. A Hugo Award, a statuette given out by the World Science Fiction Society.
    • Red Mars (1992) won a Nebula and Green Mars (1993) won a Hugo. - 2018, James Gunn, Alternate Worlds, McFarland, →ISBN, page 262:

Forms

Hugos