Family name origins & meanings
- English (East Anglia and the south) : topographic name for someone who lived on a spur of a hill, from the Old English dative case hōe (originally used after a preposition) of hōh ‘spur of a hill’. The surname may also derive from any of the minor places named with this word, such as Hoo in Kent and Hooe in Devon and Sussex.
- Chinese :
see Hu.