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hose Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name from Middle English hose, huse ‘brambles’, ‘thorns’.
  2. English: habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, named from Old English hos, plural of hoh ‘spur of land’ (literally ‘heel’), or a topographic name with the same meaning.
  3. English and German: metonymic occupational name from Middle English, Middle Low and High German hose ‘hose’, ‘leggings’, denoting a knitter or seller of hose, or a nickname for someone who habitually wore noticeble legwear.
  4. German (Upper Saxony): apparently from a Czech personal name, Hos, a reduced form of Johannes (see John).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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hose Family Facts

Distribution of hose Families in the US in 1920
Number of hose families
 19-36
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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