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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Hause.
  • French (Houzé) : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots and shoes or a nickname for someone noted for his footwear, from Old French ho(u)se, heuse ‘boot’, ‘shoe’.

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