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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : status name for a householder or for someone who lived or worked at a house, Middle Low German hūs ‘house’ (see House).
  • Czech and Slovak (Hus), German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Czech husa ‘goose’ (see Husa).
  • German : from the Germanic personal name Huzo, a short form of any of the various compound names formed with hugi ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ as the first element.
  • Swedish : most probably from German.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.

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