Last name origins & meanings:
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Ochs ‘ox’,
Middle High German ohse; probably a nickname for a strong or
lumbering individual, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who
tended or drove oxen, or for a cattle dealer. In some cases the
surname was a habitational name derived from an inn sign. As a Jewish
name it is often ornamental.
- The New York Times publisher Adolph Simon Ochs
(1858–1935), of German-Jewish stock, was a second-generation
immigrant whose father, Julius Ochs, had come over from Fürth in
Bavaria, Germany, in 1845 and settled in Louisville, KY, in the early
1800s.
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