Family name origins & meanings
- North German : status name for a householder or for someone who lived or worked at a house, Middle Low German hūs ‘house’ (see House).
- Czech and Slovak (Hus), German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Czech husa ‘goose’ (see Husa).
- German : from the Germanic personal name Huzo, a short form of any of the various compound names formed with hugi ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ as the first element.
- Swedish : most probably from German.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.