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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Hösch) : (North German): nickname from a reduced form of Middle Low German hovesch ‘courtly’, a derivative of hof ‘court’ (see Hoff).
  • German (Hösch) : probably a nickname for a scornful person, from Middle High German hoschen ‘to mock’, hosche ‘mockery’.
  • German (Hösch) : from a pet form of the personal name Johannes (see Johann, John).

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