Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized form of Norwegian Uthus, a habitational name from various farmsteads so named, from Old Norse Uthúsar, a compound of ut ‘out(lying)’ + hús ‘farmstead’.
- Probably an Americanized form of North German Uthoff, a topographic or habitational name for someone living or working at an outlying farm, from Middle Low German ūt ‘out’, ‘away’ + hove ‘farmstead’.
- Americanized form of Dutch Outhof, a topographic or habitational name, from oude hove ‘old farm’.