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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Perhaps an altered spelling of Dutch Hozzee, from a diminutive of Old French hose ‘stocking’, ‘boot’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such articles or possibly as a nickname for someone who wore flamboyant or otherwise remarkable leg wear.

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