Hose

Locally spelled Hoese in ZA South Africa.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• English:/hoʊz/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• German:/ˈhoːzə/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Hose is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English80%

  from OE hosa ‘hose’; metonymic for a maker or seller of hose; first attested Henry Hose 1154 MCh. Also from OE hos ‘brambles, thorns’; dwelling there; first attested Hugh de la Hose 1189 P (Norfolk).

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

  metonymic occupational name from Middle English, Middle Low and High German hose ‘hose’, ‘leggings’, denoting a knitter or seller of hose, or a nickname for someone who habitually wore noticeble legwear.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, named from Old English hds, plural of hdh ‘spur of land’ (literally ‘heel’), or a topographic name with the same meaning.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• German7.9%

  originally 'stocking, gaiter'; from Hose and related forms

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  Occupational surname: from maker of trousers/beinkleiders; bearer count 587.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  occupational name for a tailor; from trousers

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Hose is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Hosē, Höse

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

• Charles Hoseb. 1863GBBritish colonial administrator and scientist (1863-1929)
• Walter Hoseb. 1875CACanadian admiral (1875–1965)
• Humphrey Hoseb. 1947VEVenezuelan tennis player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Hose mean, and where does it come from?

from OE hosa ‘hose’; metonymic for a maker or seller of hose; first attested Henry Hose 1154 MCh. Also from OE hos ‘brambles, thorns’; dwelling there; first attested Hugh de la Hose 1189 P (Norfolk). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.

How do you pronounce Hose?

It depends on the language: in English /hoʊz/ (Wiktionary); in German /ˈhoːzə/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Hose?

In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Hose, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hose. After it come Germany, Australia, United Kingdom and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Hose?

In the United States, the national register counted 2,276 people named Hose in 2010, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.