Johannes Hahn: Coat of Arms
This is copy of the Hahn coat of arms, copied from somewhere but I know not where. Perhaps a book on heraldry?
According to the another article, Hahn in German meant cock or rooster, probably denoting one who lives or works when the cock, or rooster, crows.
The coat of arms found its way into the person's name as a surname, or to distinguish between two or more persons with the same first name.
The Hahn coat of arms is officially documented in a number of books on heraldry, which are plentiful on the internet. Some of them charge for the search and may offer products bearing a likeness of the coat of arms. Some may also charge for a search on the origin of the name.
One source said that when translated the blazon also describes the original colors as Divided
horizontally: 1) Gold , a naturally colored rooster; 2) checkered black and silver. Above the shield and helmet is the crest which is described as: "The rooster between two elephant trunks divided horizontally, alternating black and gold."
Several coats of arms are recorded for the name Hahn (also spelled Hahne), all featuring a rooster.
Among prominent Hahns were sculptor Hermann Hahn and chemist Otto Hahn, who received the 1944 Nobel Prize for chemistry for work on atomic fission. The name is found to rank 660 in popularity in the United States. There have been other Hahn/Hawn luminaries as well but alas, Goldie Hawn is not one of them. Her original name was Hahnamann or something similar and she shortened it for her career in entertainment.
This is a very poor representation of the Hahn coat of arms, but it came from a faded photocopy of a newspaper article. I was unable to improve it much.
According to the article, Hahn in German meant "cock" or "rooster, menaing "one who lives or works at the sign of the cock." The primary purpose of surnames was to distinguish between two or more persons
in an area with the same first name. Another said hahn was slang for a "proud, cocky individual." A graphic showed the distribution of Hahns in the US as being heaviest around the GreatLakes and east to Maine, less heavy west of the Great Lakes and California and sparse elsewhere in the country.The lower image is a very poor representation of the Hahn coat of arms, but it came from a faded photocopy of a newspaper article. I was unable to improve it much.
According to the article, Hahn in German meant "cock" or "rooster, menaing "one who lives or works at the sign of the cock."
The primary purpose of surnames was to distinguish between two or more persons in an area with the same first name.
Several coats of arms are recorded for the name Hahn (also spelled Hahne), all featuring a rooster.
| Jim Hahn (jameshahn@gmail.com) sent these coats of arms, saying that his family's (each family has its own) is the first. It was first printed n 1670, so it was created earlier than that. Any others? |  |
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