Family name origins & meanings
- English : from Old French oison ‘gosling’.
- German (Ösen) : patronymic from the personal name Öser (see Oser).
- German : habitational name from Oese near Hemer.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named from the definite singular form of os, Old Norse óss ‘river mouth’.
- Swedish : probably an ornamental name, of unexplained origin.