Names

Variant of Voss.

From the given name Vos, which comes from the Frisian name Fos, which is from Old Germanic given names beginning with the element folk meaning “people”.

From Middle Low German vos meaning “fox”. It was originally a nickname for a clever person or a person with red hair.

Means “red” in Hungarian, referring to a person with red hair or face.

Derived from Russian ворона (vorona) meaning “crow”.

Possibly from the Germanic vonn meaning “hunting track” and gut meaning “good”. A famous bearer was the American author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007).

Means “from Ingersleben”, a town in Germany, which means “Inge’s village”.

Means “from Grimmelshausen”, a town in Germany. It is itself derived from Grimmel, of uncertain meaning, and hausen meaning “houses”. A famous bearer was the German author Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621-1676).

Means “from Essen”, a city in Germany, possibly a derivative of Old High German asc meaning “ash tree”.

Means “from the area cleared by fire”, from Middle High German brant.