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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Austrian : variant of Hiess, which is from an aphetic short form of the personal name Mathies (see Matthew).
  • South German and Austrian : variant of Heuss.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental from German heiss ‘hot’.

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