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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Dutch, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : regional name for someone from the territory of Hesse (German Hessen).
  • South German : from a short form of the personal name Matthäus (see Matthew).
  • German and Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Hesso.

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