Andrew John Hozier-Byrne was born on 17 March 1990 in Bray, County Wicklow, the son of Raine Hozier-Byrne, an artist, and John Byrne, a local blues drummer who had a day job working at a bank.

What does Hozier mean?

Hozier is an Anglo-Saxon name. The name was originally given to a person who makes or sells stockings and socks. The surname Hozier is derived from the Old English word hosa, which means hose.

The star told Interview Magazine that the name comes from his grandmother’s side. He explained that when he released his first EP, he used the name Andrew Hozier Byrne but later decided to shorten it to the first part of his double-barreled surname.

How do you pronounce the name Hozier?

Hozier, whose stage name is derived from his full name Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, also dished on some of the worst ways he’s ever heard it mispronounced.

Okay, the easiest way to pronounce it, I suppose, is to think of: It rhymes with cozier, or it rhymes with nosier,” he said. “So it’s just ‘Hozier.