Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : origin uncertain; perhaps a habitational name from Horchheim in the Rhineland, named from Middle High German hork, horec ‘dirt’ + heim ‘home’, ‘dwelling place’.
- German : topographic name for someone who lived in a swampy place, from Middle High German hor ‘mire’, ‘mud’.
- German : nickname for an eavesdropper, from Middle High German horchen ‘to listen’.