Hoch Family History
Hoch Surname Meaning
German: from Middle High German hōch ‘high’; a habitational name from any of various places called Hoch or a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of high land or a descriptive nickname for a tall man from a different sense of the same word.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a tall person from German hoch ‘tall’ Yiddish hoykh.
Czech: from a pet form of the Old Czech personal name Hodislav (see Hosek).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022