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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : from Hasso, a pet form of the Germanic personal name Hadubert, or of some other compound personal name beginning with hadu ‘battle’, ‘strife’.
  • German : nickname for a bitter and vicious man, from Middle High German haz ‘hatred’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Hass ‘hatred’, one of names selected from vocabulary words by government officials when surnames became compulsory.

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