Names

Variant of Hase.

Variant of Hase.

Variant of Haanraads.

Variant of Haanraads.

Originally indicated a person from Haanrade, a small village in the south of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands.

Means “son of Håkon”.

Occupational name meaning “peddler” in Dutch.

Meaning unknown. This name was used by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen for the central character in his play Peer Gynt (1867). Ibsen based the story on an earlier Norwegian folktale Per Gynt.

Derived from either archaic Polish gwozd meaning “forest” or gwóźdź meaning “nail”.

From Swiss German gwerig meaning “agile, alert”.