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.