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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Swiss German Hösli or Hösly, or Swabian Hösle, metonymic occupational name for a maker of hose or leggings (see Hose 3), from a diminutive of Middle High German hose.

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