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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Lorraine) : French spelling of German Häusel, a topographic name meaning ‘small house’, a diminutive of Haus.
  • Americanized spelling of German Hausel, a variant of Hausch, from the Germanic personal name Husuald(us), composed of hūs ‘house’ + walt ‘rule’.

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