Hungate Family History
Hungate Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the street name Hungate from Middle English hundegate ‘street where hounds are kept’. Streets with this name are recorded in medieval York Methley (near Leeds Yorkshire) Sawley (near Ripon Yorkshire) and Market Weighton (East Yorkshire). The latter two are associated with medieval men bearing the surname in Sawley and nearby Grantley and Ripon and in Market Weighton and nearby Nunburnholme and Burnby.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022