Male first name (German); (?) Horst bushes, undergrowth, Old High (Word format); hurst = the bushes, undergrowth, perhaps by an old German word for brush, undergrowth, or perhaps connected by 'Horsa', which according to legend said to have been Hengist with the leader of the first Germanic settlers in England, the name 'Horsa' probably means 'horse'; spread long time little was popular only in recent times
