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host Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for an innkeeper, from Middle English, Old French (h)oste ‘host’, ‘guest’.
  2. Danish (Høst): nickname from høst ‘harvest’, ‘autumn’ (see Herbst).
  3. French: from Old French ost ‘army’, hence an occupational name for a soldier.
  4. Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Austa, meaning ‘east’.
  5. German: habitational name from either of two places called Host, near Koblenz and near Bitburg.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The host name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the host family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of host Families in the US in 1920
Number of host families
 23-43
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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