North German: occupational name for a peddler (see Haack
1).North German: topographic name for someone who lived by
a hedge (see Heck 2).North German: perhaps also a
topographic name from hach, hack ‘dirty, boggy water’.Frisian, Dutch, and North German: from a Frisian personal
name, Hake.Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic
occupational name from Yiddish hak ‘axe’.English:
variant of Hake 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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