Given name & surname

Foos

Foos is a surname from German.

Original GermanFuss

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Foos comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In English usage, Foos as a surname developed from FUSS.

Foos’s family of names

In English usage, Foos as a surname developed from the German form FUSS.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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