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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Häusler) : from a diminutive of Middle High German hūs ‘house’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant, hence a status name denoting the occupant of a small house with no land, a day laborer.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Hauser.

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