Family name origins & meanings
- North German : habitational name from a place on the lower Rhine near Kevelaer, named with Low German hees ‘brush’.
- Northern French (Hées) : habitational name from a place in present-day Belgium or from any of the French villages so named, from Old French haisi ‘bushy place’.
- Dutch : variant of Haas.
- Shortened form of Dutch van Hees, a habitational name for someone from any of the places in the Netherlands and Belgium named Hees, for example in Drenthe, Utrecht, North Brabant, and Luxembourg.