as a Last Name
- 833
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Fosse
Meaning & Origins
English and French: habitational name from any of the various minor places named with Old English foss ‘ditch’ (Latin fossa). The Old English word did not survive into the period when surnames were acquired, so it is unlikely to be a topographic name, unless it is from the Old French cognate fosse. The reference may be to the Roman road Fosse Way, itself named in the Old English period from the ditch that ran alongside it, or to the river Foss in Yorkshire.
| 30,684th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 833
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Fosse per capita
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