Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German hōch ‘high’; a habitational name from any of various places named Hoch, or a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of high land, or a descriptive nickname for a tall man, from the same word.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a tall person, from German hoch ‘tall’, Yiddish hoykh.
- Czech : from a pet form of the personal name Hodislav, composed of the elements hodi- ‘to be fit or suited’ + slav ‘glory’, ‘splendor’.