Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

English : variant spelling of Fosse.
Danish : from fos, vos ‘fox’; a nickname for a sly or cunning person or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a fox.
Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’, examples of which are found throughout Norway.
Altered spelling of German Voss or the Dutch cognate Vos.

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