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A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.
1986, Kitty Burns Florey, Real Life, Morrow, →ISBN, page 34:
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?"
Hugo is the 173rd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 3,616 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,733 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
“Hugo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024