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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : of uncertain origin; possibly a habitational name from a place named Hosenfeld near Fulda (Hesse), or a topographic name (Hossfeld), a derivative of Hose ‘hose’, denoting a field shaped like a leg or a pair of legs (see Hose).
  • Possibly an altered spelling of English Horsfield.

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