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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Hübsch) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Middle High German hübesch ‘courtly’, ‘polite’, ‘refined’, ‘agreeable’, German hübsch. The present-day sense of hübsch, ‘pretty’, ‘handsome’, ‘nice’, is a comparatively recent development and is unlikely to have affected the German surname, although it is the sense of the Jewish name, which is mainly ornamental.

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