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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : habitational name from a place on the lower Rhine near Kevelaer, named with Low German hees ‘brush’.
  • Northern French (Hées) : habitational name from a place in present-day Belgium or from any of the French villages so named, from Old French haisi ‘bushy place’.
  • Dutch : variant of Haas.
  • Shortened form of Dutch van Hees, a habitational name for someone from any of the places in the Netherlands and Belgium named Hees, for example in Drenthe, Utrecht, North Brabant, and Luxembourg.

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