Given name & surname · also German
Hose
“young tree”
Hose is a surname from German, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hose goes back to Proto-West Germanic *haistr, meaning “young tree.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Hose comes from German, and ultimately from Proto-West Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English hās, from Proto-West Germanic *haistr (“young tree”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hose through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1971. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,112 as a first name in 2020; 1,951 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hose’s family of names
In English usage, Hose as a surname has a related form in HOWES. In Japanese usage, Hose as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 帆世.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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