The hose Surname
hose Name Meaning and History
- English: topographic name from Middle English hose, huse ‘brambles’, ‘thorns’.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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