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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German (Hösly) : Alemannic diminutive of Hose ‘hose’, ‘leggings’, either from a metonymic occupational name for a maker of these garments or a topographic name from the shape of a field (see Hoeschen).

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