Given name & surname · also Norman

Hussey

“trousers, pants”

Hussey is a surname with more than one origin.

Meaning & origin

What it means

As an English surname of Norman origin, Hussey goes back to Latin hosae, meaning “trousers, pants.”

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Where it comes from

Hussey has more than one origin: as an English surname of Norman origin, it comes from Old French hosed; as an Irish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “descendant of Eodhus”.

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How it developed

From Old French hosed, from Latin hosae (“trousers, pants”), from Middle English houswyf (“housewife”), from Medieval Latin Osseia.

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