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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of the personal name Theodosius.
  • German : habitational name from Dusch, a place in Grison canton, Switzerland.
  • German : (Düsch): unexplained.
  • German : topographic name from Bavarian dialect Dosch, Dusch ‘bush’, ‘thick bunch’.
  • French (Alsace and Lorraine) : ethnic name for a German, from Middle High German diusch, variant of diutsch.

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