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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