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oss Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: from Low German oss ‘ox’, hence a nickname for a farmer or a stupid person, or in some cases a habitational name for someone living at a house or inn distinguished by the sign of an ox.
  2. South German (especially southern Bavaria (Allgäu)): from a short form of the personal name Oswald.
  3. Dutch (van Oss): habitational name from Oss in North Brabant.
  4. Probably an Americanized form of any of a number of common Norwegian habitational names from farmsteads named with Old Norse áss ‘hill’, ‘ridge’ (see Aas).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of oss Families in the US in 1920
Number of oss families
 8-13
 3-7
 1-2
 0
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