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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss and German : (also Käser) occupational name for a cheese maker or a cheese merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kæse ‘cheese’.
  • Swiss and German : topographic name for someone who lived by a summer dairy in the Alps, from a Tyrolean dialect word derived from Ladin casura.

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