Släkthistoria för Chose
Chose Vad efternamn betyder
possibly a variant of Jose (see Joyce) with unvoicing of the initial consonant.perhaps from Middle English chos a variant of Middle English Old French chois ‘noble handsome’ (see Choyce). However this form of the word is recorded only in northern Middle English and the historical distribution of this surname is quite different from that of Choyce.alternatively from Old French chose ‘thing’ alluding to an expression such as Old French faire la chose ‘have sexual intercourse’ or Old French and Middle English bele chose ‘female private parts’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
